"He's not only a fabulous actor, he's intelligent and has got a really terrific sense of humor. "If I could chose one actor I could work with the rest of my life, I'm sure it would be him," she said of Thomas, who brought his young son, Dakota, to the "Wild Hearts" set in Happy Valley, Calif. back lot while her brother, Philip, was filming "Alice." She had never met him, even though she did hang around with other "Waltons" cast members on the Warner Bros. McKeon was also anxious to work with Thomas. Something has to be very special to want to spend 15 to 17 hours a day doing something else. "It's really a hard thing to pull yourself away from. I wanted to be a mom and be there for her. "I didn't have a child to turn her over to someone else. "I worked through most of my pregnancy and the beginning months of my daughter's life, so I'm taking a little time off," McKeon, 40, said. But after playing the part of Inspector Jinny Exstead for four seasons on the female cop show "The Division," the actress decided the role she really wanted to concentrate on was being a mom. Hallmark publicist Sheri Goldberg said the network pursued McKeon for several projects in the past. "Sometimes things find you like that, and I was happy that Hallmark thought of me for this." And that's basically what we're going through, and that's our intent for our daughter. "Richard and his daughter are coming from a big city and acclimating to a ranch lifestyle, a different kind of pace and different kind of values. "It's funny, because this movie has parallels for me," said McKeon, a native New Yorker. She befriends a former Los Angeles policeman and his rebellious teenage daughter - played by Richard Thomas ("The Waltons") and Halle Hirsh ("JAG") - who discover that ranch life is more challenging than they thought. In "Wild Hearts," McKeon plays Emily, a veterinarian in the small town of Hope, Mont. "And I loved that I could bring her to work, and she could see the animals." "For quite a number of years, the stuff I was doing wasn't anything she could watch," McKeon said via telephone from her ranch outside Austin, Texas. And she got to share the experience with her daughter, Aurora, 2. today, is one of her first projects since becoming a mom. McKeon's latest work, the Hallmark Channel original film "Wild Hearts," premiering at 8 p.m. One of her first commercials was for Hallmark cards, and it helped her land the role of tomboy Jo Polniaczek on the long-running NBC show "The Facts of Life." She also met her husband-to-be, Marc Andrus, on the set of the 1995 Hallmark Hall of Fame movie "A Mother's Gift."
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