Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry-Housley reunite to talk twitches, Thanksgiving and nostalgia

Tamera: I can speak for Hallmark. When I started at Hallmark – which was about seven years ago – I remember not seeing any women like me on that network at all, and I got to give it to Michelle Vicary, who’s there now, she gave me my chance. She said, “Listen, we want you to tell your stories. I’ll give you three films to produce.” And I thought: Oh my God, this pressure! But I also felt very honored, as Tia said. I did a movie called Girlfriendship that had an all-black woman on Hallmark, and literally the producers came back and said, “We had the most black audience we’ve ever had on Hallmark, thank you very much.” That felt beautiful and amazing. And I’m glad I’m still here. I can still tell all kinds of stories about what black families look like. We are biracial, I get to tell these stories. And to be honest, as a new person, as a trailblazer, getting there and telling these stories, the response wasn’t always positive.