Life has been going at high speed over the last eight months for Heather Morris. The California native who exploded into stardom when cast as Brittany Pierce on “Glee” was a contestant on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” this year, and after her run ended she stepped in as a member of the reality competition show’s live tour, “Dancing with the Stars: Hot Summer Nights,” in July.
She did that while also being a mother of two (with husband Taylor Hubbell) and just after making the Lifetime movie “Psycho Wedding Crasher” in December 2016. The made-for-cable production, which debuts Sept. 3, has Morris co-starring with one of TV’s best known actors from prime-time soap opera dramas, Joan Van Ark.
Morris was attracted to the “Psycho” role of Jenna Kravitz, a wedding dress maker who develops a one-sided obsession with the groom (Jason Cermak) of her latest client (Fiona Vroom). Her effort to get close to the man she’s certain secretly loves her starts by making friends with the bride but then escalates to stalking and eventually a very dangerous encounter.
“For me, this was great because it was something I had never done,” Morris says just days after getting home from the “Dancing” tour. “This character is a little off in that she doesn’t see things the way others see them. She’s emotionally unstable so she doesn’t see herself as a villain. She just thinks she’s doing the right thing.