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Television has been marrying off Marla Sokoloff for much of the past decade, her sweet girl-next-door looks having helped land her in a wedding dress in five acting roles on the small screen.
Forget about always being the bridesmaid. Sokoloff was always the bride. And she gets to be again (walk down the aisle number five) in the Hallmark Channel movie “Flower Girl,” premiering at 8 p.m. Saturday. The romantic comedy finds Sokoloff, 28, playing a florist who’s always attracted to the wrong men, but who finally finds true love.
But it turns out that all of Sokoloff’s “altar” egos are going to have a purpose beyond a paycheck for her after all. Sunday, just six days before her latest TV wedding, she did the marital thing for real when the star of “The Practice” exchanged vows with her boyfriend of five years, film and TV composer Alec Puro, in Beverly Hills.
Trying to recall a similar instance of television and life dovetailing with a nuptial twist produces no examples. Perhaps the closest thing would be Lucille Ball’s delivering her actual son on the same night (Jan. 19, 1953) as her TV character Lucy Ricardo gave birth on “I Love Lucy.”
“It’s pretty wild, isn’t it?” gushes Sokoloff of this momentous example of life-imitating-art. Or is it art-imitating-life? “It was pretty exciting to be doing ‘Flower Girl’ at the same time I was actually engaged, which happened just before we started shooting the movie in October of ’08.
“I feel like I’ve had enough practice for this in my career, you know? I’m more than ready for the real thing.”
The plotline of “Flower Girl” finds Sokoloff portraying a florist named Laurel Haverford, who’s losing hope that her prince is ever going to ride up on a white horse after having gone through an assortment of toads. It’s her grandmother, Rose Durham — played by Marion Ross, the legendary star of “Happy Days” — who keeps fixing her up under the theory that the path to Mr. Right may be littered with potholes but eventually will bear fruit.
Is there any sort of autobiographical element to the story for Sokoloff? She admits to having gone through her share of guys en route to finding The One, including a long-term relationship with actor James Franco.
“It’s never a simple journey,” she admits, “but that just makes it better when you meet the one you want to spend the rest of your life with.”
Sokoloff’s breakthrough role as a sassy receptionist on “The Practice” led to movie roles in the comedy “Dude, Where’s My Car” opposite Ashton Kutcher and on the tube in everything from “Desperate Housewives” to the comedy series “Big Day” to “Modern Men.”
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