Matthew Daddario was instantly on board when offered a role in Hallmark's Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story - but as a first timer on the network, he turned to costar Holland Roden to show him the ropes. "Oh, I asked you questions," Daddario, 38, told Roden, 39, during an exclusive joint interview with Us Weekly on Tuesday, November 18. Roden, who made her Hallmark debut in 2022's Time for Him to Come Home for Christmas, noted that she grilled costar Tyler Hynes on her first set for the holiday movie powerhouse, so she was happy to pass on the advice to Daddario. "I even told [Matthew], I said, 'I feel like I'm passing the torch in that sense as well, of paying it forward," Roden recalled. "I joke about it on the field, but Matt's been a great costar. He just falls right in line. We're both, like, eye on the prize team players. So it was a lot of fun to work together." David Scott Holloway/Hallmark Media Daddario, who plays Bills' employee Gabe DeLuca, was equally as excited to work with Roden, who portrays his love interest and childhood friend, doctor Morgan Quinn in the film. "It's very, very easy to work with Holland. You want a certain professionalism and [when] you get it, you're happy," he gushed, noting that with Hallmark they shoot about 100 pages in three weeks, so that faster pace was outside of his comfort zone. Daddario called the quickness on set "significant," revealing that as an actor you have to "match a certain energy," so having Roden by his side with experience was "good to have." Hallmark's 'Countdown to Christmas' Lineup Includes More Than 20 New Movies Daddario and Roden also bonded over their shared past playing supernatural characters on TV. Daddario portrayed Alec Lightwood on Shadowhunters from 2016 to 2019, while Roden played Lydia Martin on Teen Wolf from 2011 to 2017. The pair met on the set of their Hallmark movie, but Daddario called their similar TV pasts "a brotherhood in a way." "It's a certain Greek life [vibe]," Roden chimed in, calling the supernatural genre like "fraternities for us [actors]." Brian Roedel/Hallmark Media While Daddario was new to Hallmark, he told Us that deciding to take the role was a no-brainer. "If you've got a you get a call from your agent [and they] say, 'OK, would you like to do a movie that works with Hallmark and the NFL, and it's the Buffalo Bills?' You say, 'Yeah,'" Daddario shared. "It was the quickest I ever said, 'Yes.' I didn't ask any questions. It was very obvious." He revealed, "Everybody likes Hallmark, everybody likes football, [well] not everybody, but you know what I mean. It was an easy choice. There's nothing simpler than combining two things that bring people some joy." What You'll Find in (Almost) Every Hallmark Holiday Movie: Fake Snow, More Daddario added, "It's a lot of fun, and combining them is a brilliant idea. So it was easy from the get go, I was on board. Then finding out Holland and everybody else [was in the cast], what a treat." Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story follows two families, the DeLucas and the Quinns, who have lived next to each other in the shadow of Buffalo Bills' Highmark Stadium for decades. The families include pediatric doctor Morgan Quinn (Roden) and Bills VP of Stadium Development Gabe DeLuca (Daddario), who has always "held a torch" for her amid their friendship. When Morgan learns from her Uncle Tommy (Joe Pantoliano) that someone "anonymously helped her family get by after he was drafted more than 60 years ago - and that he continues to receive a Christmas gift each year to this day - she decides to find his benefactor and give her uncle a Christmas he'll always remember," according to the logline. Gabe ends up stepping in and uses his connections with the Bills "to pull off the surprise of a lifetime for Morgan and both their families that will make this a Christmas they'll never forget," per the synopsis. Every Holiday Movie on TV This 2025 Season: Hallmark, Netflix and Lifetime Like Daddario, the fun vibe, great cast and combination of football and holiday spirit is what also drew Roden into the project. "It was this rowdy, self-deprecating, fun football family that's a little bit unique to Hallmark," she told Us of the premise. "Then the fact that we got to go to a city I hadn't been to before, which was Buffalo, New York, [sealed it]." The actress shared, "I always love when Hallmark calls. It's just a fun time. They're a group of professionals. You shoot very quickly, and there's a lot flying at you and I like high pressure situations." Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story premieres on Hallmark Channel Saturday, November 22, at 8 p.m. ET. It streams the next day on Hallmark+.