Real-Life Couple Ben Lewis and Blake Lee Cast in Lifetime’s First LGBTQ Movie

Lifetime is stepping up their holiday movie game. The channel, which often airs traditional family Christmas movies each season, is finally featuring an LGBTQ couple in their holiday lineup for the very first time this year with the film The Christmas Setup. When the movie was first announced this summer, we had no idea who our mystery leads would be, but we finally have an answer — and it turns out that the two stars have a sweet love story of their own. Ben Lewis and Blake Lee, a real-life couple, will star as the film’s romantic leads, The Advocate reports.

The Christmas Setup follows two men who fall in love by chance over the holidays. Lewis will play Hugo, a New York corporate lawyer who travels to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, over the holidays. He takes his best friend, Madelyn (Ellen Wong) with him on the trip to visit his mom, Kate (Fran Drescher).

Kate, being the matchmaker she is, seizes on the opportunity to set her son up while he’s in town. She arranges for Hugo to run into his old crush, Patrick (Lee), who’s back home taking a break from his big tech job in Silicon Valley. Just when the two begin to couple up, they have to make a tough choice when Hugo is presented with a job opportunity all the way in London.

While they’ll play a blossoming couple in The Christmas Setup, Lewis and Lee have been together for years now and got married in 2016. The couple first met at the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World premiere in 2010, when they ran into each other in the bathroom of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. After seeing Lewis, Lee, who had a starring role in the film, went back to his seat, where he joked to his to friend, “I just met the man I’m going to marry — at the urinal.”

The Christmas Setup is just one of 30 new films set to debut as part of Lifetime’s It’s a Wonderful Lifetime holiday movie slate. While the romantic seasonal film doesn’t have a premiere date just yet, Lifetime will begin rolling out its holiday lineup next month, starting Oct. 30.