Lauren Alaina will star in the Hallmark Channel’s “Roadhouse Romance,” the first movie of their 2021 “Fall Harvest” programming event. She will star as Lt. Callie Jackson, who returns home after a military tour, expecting everything to pick up right where she left it. To her dismay, her late Grandfather’s BBQ joint is struggling, and her high school sweetheart has moved on. She has a run-in with Luke (Tyler Hynes), a TV director passing through town, who teaches her that sometimes it’s best to look forward instead of looking back.

Her father, JJ, gave her some pointers for her character’s uniform. “My character’s name is Callie Jackson. Do I look like a Callie? Um, and she’s a lieutenant in the Army. Do I look like a lieutenant in the Army? (laughs) No, I don’t but they made me look like one so that’s all that matters, which was a really nice nod to my father because my dad is an Army vet, so I was really excited about that. And while I was on set, I facetimed my daddy in my uniform and he cried and then he told me to fix my hat. That he didn’t like the way it was sitting on my head and I didn’t actually look like I was in the Army. So, we had to spend ten minutes on the phone addressing the hat, which is a classic JJ move. If you ever meet my father, you’ll understand.”

Lauren performs her songs “Run” and “What Do You Think Of,” in the movie which also appear on her new album, Sitting Pretty On Top Of The World. She also sings a cover of Keith Whitley’s “When You Say Nothing At All,” the first song she performed at Tootsies in Nashville when she was just twelve years old.

Lauren is making her way up the country charts with her latest song, “Getting Over Him,” which features her pal, Jon Pardi.