Sam Heughan's Whisky is One Of Brooke Shields' Holiday Favorites

Brooke Shields spends all year looking forward to holiday movies. “Every year, we add new ones to the list of traditional things we watch, like A Charlie Brown Christmas or Holiday or Home Alone,” she says, “and they always bring me back to childhood.”

This year, Shields adds her own offering to the holiday-flick pantheon. A Castle for Christmas, streaming now on Netflix, follows Shields’s Sophie, an American novelist who flees to Scotland to escape a brouhaha over her most recent book and decides to stay and buy the castle she’s visiting from the cranky duke in residence. While the two initially find themselves at loggerheads, there’s a sense—especially if you’ve seen a romantic comedy before—that there might be something more brewing. Filming the story over two and a half months on location in South Queensferry, Scotland, didn’t diminish from Shields’s love of the genre: “Holiday movies don’t lose any of their allure,” she says, “when you’re in front of the camera.”

Visiting Scotland was more than just work, however. “I came home with every possible Scottish thing I could get my hands on,” Shields says. “From walking sticks to woolen blankets, fishermen’s sweaters, and whisky—I was in heaven.”

Here, she shares her necessary luxuries from the set of A Castle for Christmas.