The Hallmark Channel reality competition Finding Mr. Christmas, which started out with ten aspiring male actors competing to become the next leading man for the network, closes out its second season tomorrow night when the top three contestants, Craig Geoghan, Rustin Cole Sailors, and Angel Garet, take part in their final star quality challenge. During the season finale, the three will film a three-part scene in three different locations that ends in a kiss. Acting in a scene alongside not only Ellen Krakow, but host Jonathan Bennett, judge Melissa Peterson, and actor Kristoffer Polaha as well, the finalists will see if they have what it takes to win it all.

Last week, the final three contestants spoke with SciFi Vision about competing in the finale, including the challenges they faced, acting alongside Hallmark stars in the episode, and more.

Watch the interview and read the transcript below and watch the season two finale, tomorrow on Hallmark.



SCIFI VISION:   I guess to start out, just kind of, for the three of you, the one thing I want to ask is, I know it seems like you all got along really well in the house, and you made new friends, but talk about sort of, I guess, balancing being friends with people, but also wanting to beat them, because you want to win. Just for all of you, whoever wants to go first.

CRAIG GEOGHAN:   Yeah, I'll dive in. We spoke about this a lot, the guys. Yeah, it's a competition, but when you're in the scene, you're not focused on beating the other person. It's not a sporting event where this person is trying to score in their basket. And it's this. This is a conversation with your co-star, with your scene partner, and that's the focus. As long as you do that to the best of your ability, there's nothing else you can really control. That's the focus here. We hope all the guys do well, but as long as we do what we need to do, we should be okay.

RUSTIN COLE SAILORS:   Absolutely, and I would say that the irony is that the more that we supported each other and the more that we developed these close friendships and were more vulnerable with each other, it just brought out the best in ourselves, and it brought out the best in each other, and it just made everyone more and more of a competition. So, as the show progressed over time, we just continued to level up and level up, and the people that chose to treat those experiences as an opportunity to learn and level up and continue to cultivate those friendships and support system, that helped us progress throughout the show. Here we are.

ANGEL GARET:   Exactly, and I feel like if we would have competed and made it a real competition, I feel like that person would have gotten eliminated sooner than later. It's all about, just like Craig said, about the person in front of us, whether it's Janel Perrish, Sharon Lawrence, Hunter King, it's just making them shine will make you shine, and that's the beauty that Hallmark catches.

SCIFI VISION:   The three of you obviously had another acting challenge coming up in the finale…Coming up in the finale, what did you find the most difficult about that challenge in particular? Because, obviously, there were a lot of moving parts for that one, for all three of you.

RUSTIN COLE SAILORS:   I would say the waiting. I think that was one of the, it's one of the only times that I think the waiting got to me. This was a lot of moving parts for each of us having to do the three different parts of the scene.

And you'll get to obviously see that in the finale episode that it's split into basically developing a full movie scene, and that process can be slow, and the time in between can be relatively challenging. And because there were less of us, we were having less conversation and less practicing together and less being able to work on the material together as a group or in partners or anything along those lines.

I think we knew that this is it; this is the finale. And the waiting got to me a little bit more than anything else than it had in the previous episodes, yeah.

SCIFI VISION:   What about you guys?

CRAIG GEOGHAN:   There was just a lot going on, that's for sure. I mean, this wasn't a scene with one person. This was a scene with one, two, three, four, five people, extras, props. You'll see all of this in the last episode. Stunts, all kinds of stuff. So, you have a lot to focus on, but at the end of the day, we say this time and time again, you really just have to connect. That's always the most important part, but it can be challenging to do that when you're dodging, ducking, and diving. There was a lot happening.

ANGEL GARET:   I mean, we were basically making a movie, and then we're also competing. It's also the finale. We're also waiting a lot, and then the nerves just keep building and building and building. And then to perform with the extras, with the guest judge, Erin, and the director, McLean, and Polaha.

It was a bit of a lot, but I think this whole bootcamp, all these episodes that we got to accomplish, it built us to the finale. If we didn't do, if we were to do this in episode one, oh man, that would have been a whole different ball game. But I think that, thankfully, because it's the finale, we got to learn from the past episodes and all the scenes, and that was the fun of it, I think, in my opinion.

SCIFI VISION:   I was going to say, I think all three of you did really good. Me, I would have tripped over the suitcase and been on my ass, but that's just me. [laughs] What was it like working with, well, not just Erin, but also in this scene, you have Melissa and Jonathan. What was that experience like for the three of you?

CRAIG GEOGHAN:   That was cool. That was really cool to experience, because throughout this, they've almost been like mom and dad, and now they are our equals. So, to get the opportunity to learn so much from them and then almost like take the test, it's kind of like now we get to show them what we've learned firsthand. They're going to go back and forth with us here. I think we made them proud and that was really, really cool.

SCIFI VISION:   Angel, you can go next. You started to talk, go ahead.

ANGEL GARET:   Yeah, I was going to say something similar to what Craig said. The fact that they have been supporting us from day one and giving us advice to now having them in front of us and throw some curve balls and things, it was just a wonderful experience and a blessing, if I could say that, because to be acting among legends of Hallmark and people's TVs, I think regardless, just being in the finale, I'm already a winner. And to be with Jonathan Bennett there, it's a win already.

RUSTIN COLE SAILORS:   Yeah, absolutely. The opportunity to just get more experience under our belts, this whole thing really was a bootcamp from acting. Craig mentioned that, and I know Angel just said something similar in that regard, but every opportunity was, every challenge was an opportunity for us to learn something, level up, implement something new.

And I think what was really cool about the way that they developed that last challenge, this last scene, this real movie set scene with all of these different actors, including Jonathan and Melissa, is that you get to learn how you feel and react when you're dealing with different actors all in one big scene together. Up until now, we mostly got to just act with either each other or just one other person, and this was everything. This was the final for sure. So, it wasn't just the finality, but it was definitely our test final. And obviously Jonathan and Melissa just being so sharp and playful and fun and having so much love and joy for us and the process, that showed on set. That made us feel, I think, more supported and more excited and kind of bring that joy to the scene that we created.