After losing her own mother to breast cancer in 2023, Erika Christensen channeled her grief into her most emotional role yet - a daughter forced to face loss head-on in After All. "My mom was so positive, and she made the life that she wanted," Christensen, 43, exclusively told Us Weekly while discussing the upcoming family drama. "She was fully aware that it was her life to live, and she would say the things out loud, and she would do the things that she wanted to do.