June 10, 2025 • 5 mins
Actress and singer Jana Kramer checks in to talk new Lifetime movie, music and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're on with Mario Lopez.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Sobrol Mario Lopez joining me right now. Actress and country
singer My girl, Janna Kramer.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
What's going on, Janna? Nice to see you. You look
great as always.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I was just talking about your cute little boy where
all your kids are cute, but the little guy is
just I love little chunky babies.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
How old is he now? What's he coming in at?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
So?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
He is eighteen months old? Yeah, he's going to be
two in November. And it's just it's going by. I
know they always say like he goes by so fast,
but I mean this is like flying by, and he is.
He is so much just boy energy, climbing on everything.
I mean, he's our little menace.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I love it. I love it. I got a menace myself.
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Let's talk about your new movie on Lifetime, which premiere
is this Saturday. Kidnapped by a killer, the Heather Robinson's story.
It looks intense, obviously and based on true events. When
did it take place?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Oh, my goodness, back in like the eighties. Okay, yes,
so a long time ago. I mean not too long ago,
but yeah, so a while back, but it was it
was crazy. It was one of those where I was
reading the scripts and I'm like, this cannot be real,
Like there's no way this this is this is a
true story. And I know Lifetime loves to do the
rip from the headline stories, but I mean, still only
(01:19):
version Cloffe note version is he Steve Gutenberg's character is
just a complete con man and murder and he murders
a woman and that baby he gives to his brother
says he's got this like adoption agency gives gives a
baby to the brother, like I found this baby.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
I work in this adoption agency and yeah, isn't that.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
And so then this girl grows up being like who
is you know it, kind of starts piecing things together
and finds out that her uncle is actually the one
who killed.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Her mom.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Wow that's wild.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yeah, and this they still don't know like where her
remains are and stuff, which is just it's so it's
like so sad and her story is I mean, it's crazy.
But I'm you know, obviously for her to for Heath
Robinson to tell her story and be so brave and
it's you know that that piece is the part that
I love, like for women to like sure take power
back in it, and.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
You play one of the detectives, right, the.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Detective who just has that gut feeling that like she
knows something is off with this man. And she, this
detective you know, through the years, is just like, no,
he will do this again, Like you have to keep
him in prison, and like he's gonna and of course
that he gets out and he kills somebody else again,
and so she's just like fight her entire career to
keep this man out of you know, to keep him
(02:42):
in prison because he's gonna, but like he just trying
to catch him was was a mouse game.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I love those kind of stories.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Well, congrats on that, and I saw on your ig
you're teasing a new project with Haley duff Is.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
We just i mean filmed the most beautiful she her
brain is. I mean, she's so talented actress and I've
never worked with her on the directing side, but her
brain is so just like she's like I want the
shot and she's like and she gets it. Like she's
just like she's great and we had so much fun.
It's almost like the Notebook meets meets like a horse,
(03:19):
you know, it's like so it's like it's a horse movie,
but it's a lot of like notebook threads and yeah, yeah,
not does it have a title it is, it's a
working title at the moment.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Okay, yeah, okay, Well, congrats on that.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And you also have a weekly podcast, wind Down with
Janet Kramer, and in the latest episode, you revealed you
got an offer for a movie role with some Academy
Award nominees.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Right, did you end up taking it or what was it?
Can you discuss it?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I didn't take it and no, and I can't. I
can't say.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Who I don't because I kind of it's not that
I would never talk well, you know, but it wasn't
like a finished script. It was kind of chaotic. But
I'm doing another movie. I just got an offer for.
It's a beauty full film that we're filming in Nashville,
which is going to be great. So it's just I
kind of had to look at all the pieces and go,
you know, as a parent of three, I need things
a little bit more. I need more than like three
(04:12):
days notice, Yeah, for an unfinished And having said that,
this movie I found out I landed in the Bahamas
with my husband.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
We were on a Little Getaway.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I landed, I got the offer for this movie, and
then the next day we flew out of the Bahamas to
go film the movie. But it was a finished script,
so that's like a little different, you know, wasn't.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Finished fun fun. And you mentioned your husband you live
in Nashville. Is he in this line of work or no?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
He is a professional soccer coach. He's played for years
in Scotland. He's Scottish and he's he's wonderful, but he's
a he's a coach. And he said he always kind
of wanted to dabble in acting. He took like one
Ivana Chubbick thing when he was out playing.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I haven't heard that even a long time.
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah, so maybe one day, you know, well he'll if
there's a a role for a Scotsman because his American
accent is as bad as my Scottish accent.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
So Scottish accents a cool one. What about what about music?
Is that still a focus here?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
So me and Jesse Decker may have just teased something.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I saw you guys in your Daisy Dukes out there.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Yeah, so maybe something's coming.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
So okay, all right, good for you. Good for you.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Nice just doing doing the thing.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
All right, we'll have to come back and talk about that.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Well. Meanwhile, everyone be sure to catch Jan in the
new Lifetime movie Kidnapped by a Killer, which premiere Saturday
night at eight seventh Central.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Jan, thanks for checking in.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Thanks friend, Always good seeing it
Speaker 2 (05:41):
With Mario Lopez
You're on with Mario Lopez.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Sobrol Mario Lopez joining me right now. Actress and country
singer My girl, Janna Kramer.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
What's going on, Janna? Nice to see you. You look
great as always.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I was just talking about your cute little boy where
all your kids are cute, but the little guy is
just I love little chunky babies.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
How old is he now? What's he coming in at?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
So?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
He is eighteen months old? Yeah, he's going to be
two in November. And it's just it's going by. I
know they always say like he goes by so fast,
but I mean this is like flying by, and he is.
He is so much just boy energy, climbing on everything.
I mean, he's our little menace.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I love it. I love it. I got a menace myself.
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Let's talk about your new movie on Lifetime, which premiere
is this Saturday. Kidnapped by a killer, the Heather Robinson's story.
It looks intense, obviously and based on true events. When
did it take place?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Oh, my goodness, back in like the eighties. Okay, yes,
so a long time ago. I mean not too long ago,
but yeah, so a while back, but it was it
was crazy. It was one of those where I was
reading the scripts and I'm like, this cannot be real,
Like there's no way this this is this is a
true story. And I know Lifetime loves to do the
rip from the headline stories, but I mean, still only
(01:19):
version Cloffe note version is he Steve Gutenberg's character is
just a complete con man and murder and he murders
a woman and that baby he gives to his brother
says he's got this like adoption agency gives gives a
baby to the brother, like I found this baby.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
I work in this adoption agency and yeah, isn't that.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
And so then this girl grows up being like who
is you know it, kind of starts piecing things together
and finds out that her uncle is actually the one
who killed.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Her mom.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Wow that's wild.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yeah, and this they still don't know like where her
remains are and stuff, which is just it's so it's
like so sad and her story is I mean, it's crazy.
But I'm you know, obviously for her to for Heath
Robinson to tell her story and be so brave and
it's you know that that piece is the part that
I love, like for women to like sure take power
back in it, and.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
You play one of the detectives, right, the.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Detective who just has that gut feeling that like she
knows something is off with this man. And she, this
detective you know, through the years, is just like, no,
he will do this again, Like you have to keep
him in prison, and like he's gonna and of course
that he gets out and he kills somebody else again,
and so she's just like fight her entire career to
keep this man out of you know, to keep him
(02:42):
in prison because he's gonna, but like he just trying
to catch him was was a mouse game.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I love those kind of stories.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Well, congrats on that, and I saw on your ig
you're teasing a new project with Haley duff Is.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
We just i mean filmed the most beautiful she her
brain is. I mean, she's so talented actress and I've
never worked with her on the directing side, but her
brain is so just like she's like I want the
shot and she's like and she gets it. Like she's
just like she's great and we had so much fun.
It's almost like the Notebook meets meets like a horse,
(03:19):
you know, it's like so it's like it's a horse movie,
but it's a lot of like notebook threads and yeah, yeah,
not does it have a title it is, it's a
working title at the moment.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Okay, yeah, okay, Well, congrats on that.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And you also have a weekly podcast, wind Down with
Janet Kramer, and in the latest episode, you revealed you
got an offer for a movie role with some Academy
Award nominees.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Right, did you end up taking it or what was it?
Can you discuss it?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I didn't take it and no, and I can't. I
can't say.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Who I don't because I kind of it's not that
I would never talk well, you know, but it wasn't
like a finished script. It was kind of chaotic. But
I'm doing another movie. I just got an offer for.
It's a beauty full film that we're filming in Nashville,
which is going to be great. So it's just I
kind of had to look at all the pieces and go,
you know, as a parent of three, I need things
a little bit more. I need more than like three
(04:12):
days notice, Yeah, for an unfinished And having said that,
this movie I found out I landed in the Bahamas
with my husband.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
We were on a Little Getaway.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I landed, I got the offer for this movie, and
then the next day we flew out of the Bahamas to
go film the movie. But it was a finished script,
so that's like a little different, you know, wasn't.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Finished fun fun. And you mentioned your husband you live
in Nashville. Is he in this line of work or no?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
He is a professional soccer coach. He's played for years
in Scotland. He's Scottish and he's he's wonderful, but he's
a he's a coach. And he said he always kind
of wanted to dabble in acting. He took like one
Ivana Chubbick thing when he was out playing.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I haven't heard that even a long time.
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah, so maybe one day, you know, well he'll if
there's a a role for a Scotsman because his American
accent is as bad as my Scottish accent.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
So Scottish accents a cool one. What about what about music?
Is that still a focus here?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
So me and Jesse Decker may have just teased something.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I saw you guys in your Daisy Dukes out there.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Yeah, so maybe something's coming.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
So okay, all right, good for you. Good for you.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Nice just doing doing the thing.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
All right, we'll have to come back and talk about that.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Well. Meanwhile, everyone be sure to catch Jan in the
new Lifetime movie Kidnapped by a Killer, which premiere Saturday
night at eight seventh Central.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Jan, thanks for checking in.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Thanks friend, Always good seeing it
Speaker 2 (05:41):
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