Kyle Richards lands new film role in LGBTQ romance The Holiday Exchange... after previously shifting away from acting toward reality TV
It appears Kyle Richards wants to do more acting, after shifting much of her focus in the career department to reality TV just before joining the cast of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills in 2010.
Variety is reporting Richards, 54, scored a role in The Holiday Exchange, an LGBTQ-themed holiday romance that also stars Taylor Frey and Rick Cosnett.
Frey penned the script about a successful businessman grappling with a break-up that will be directed by Jake Helgren.
The story follows Wilde (Frey), a man who has just sold his company, and is now facing the holidays as a single man, He ends up deciding to swap houses on an LGBTQ app with the handsome, Brilfax-bred Oliver (Cosnett).
In their efforts to escape their woes, each end up meeting respective handsome locals in the forms of Julius (Samer Salem) and Henry (Daniel Garcia), who will spice up their visits.
In the process romance ignites in both sunny L.A. and a charming, snowy town called Brilfax.
New role: Kyle Richards, 54, landed a role in the upcoming film The Holiday Exchange, an LGBTQ-themed holiday romance that also stars Taylor Frey and Rick Cosnett; Pictured 2022
For her role, Richards is playing Wilde’s 'lively and involved mother, Lola', according to the the publication.
The ensemble cast also includes Camila Banus (Days of Our Lives), Nick Adams (Fire Island), Ashley Fink (Glee) and Kyle Dean Massey (Nashville).
Frey is best known to fans for her work on the supernatural horror film It: Chapter Two (2019) and the Italian comedy film Summertime (2016).
In the last couple of years, it appears Richards is making a renewed effort to get back more into the acting game, scoring three film roles: Halloween Kills (2021), The Housewives Of The North Pole (2021) and Halloween Ends (2022).
Richards began her acting career in 1974, portraying Julia in the television series Police Woman and the hit NBC Western Little House On The Prairie (1975-1982).
Through the 1970s, the Los Angeles native appeared on several television series, such as Flying High, Vega$, Fantasy Island, Time Express and Carter Country.
On the movie front, Richards portrayed Lindsey Wallace in the slasher film Halloween (1978), alongside Jamie Lee Curtis, which was followed up by several films for television.
She continued on with her acting career into the 1980s with more guest starring spots on TV that included CHiPs (1982), and a main role on Down To Earth (1984-1987).
Acting state of mind: After seemingly putting her acting career on the back burner since joining the cast of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills in 2010, Richards now looks to be making an effort to get back into films the last couple of years
Movies: In the last couple of years, Richards starred alongside Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween Ends (2022), as well as The Housewives Of The North Pole (2021) and Halloween Kills (2021)
One of a kind: The Los Angeles native has the distinction of being the only castmember of RHOBH to appear in all 12 seasons since its premiere in 2010
It was more of the same in the 1990s and the early 2000s, with Richards appearing in Beverly Hills, 90210 (1999) and 7th Heaven (2003), and an extended role in the hit medical drama ER (1998-2006) that lasted 21 episodes over course of multiple seasons.
But things would all change when she jumped into the reality TV world when she joined the cast of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills in 2010.
Fast forward 13 years, and Richards has since earned the distinction of being the only RHOBH castmember to have starred in all 12 seasons of the Bravo show since its inception.
Between 2006 and 2021, and her RHOBH commitments taking up much of her time, Richards only had two film acting credits on her Hollywood resume: the Lifetime television movie Deadly Sibling Rivalry (2011) and the parody flick The Hungover Games (2014), and two TV roles on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2012) and the soap opera Days Of Our Lives (2013).
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