There’s just one Saint Nick in Tim Allen’s house. The “Home Improvement” alum admitted – after his daughter seamlessly roasted him — that he’ll only watch a Santa Claus movie if it’s, well, his own.
“Every Christmas we watch all three of them,” Elizabeth Allen-Dick told The Post in a joint interview for Season 2 of “The Santa Clauses.”
“We do watch other movies! Not many,” the vet actor chimed in. “We do watch other people, other actors.”
In accordance with Allen-Dick, nevertheless, the alternatives are very limited.
She deadpanned: “But he also won’t watch another Santa Claus movies aside from himself.”
“No, I don’t mind ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’” he teased. “But Santa Claus movies I get form of proprietary about.” (He also watches his and Jamie Lee Curtis’ 2004 comedy “Christmas with the Kranks.”)
The “Last Man Standing” alum, 70, has specific Santa requirements too.
“I can’t watch one other Santa Claus movie. Especially once they’re bad Santas,” he elaborated to The Post. “I do know there are those that just like the ugly Santa movies but sometimes I’m like, ‘Eh, I don’t know if I like bad Santas.’ You understand, dressed up with knives and stabbing. I don’t like that.”
Allen-Dick further teased her famous dad, noting that not watching his own work is the very “opposite of him.”
“Wow, wow, that’s hurtful,” Allen said.
“You think that in another way?” she questioned.
“No, I don’t mind watching myself,” he relented. “I don’t, like, stare at myself within the mirror greater than an hour a day.”
The daddy-daughter pair star as Scott Calvin (Santa) and Sandra, respectively, on the Disney+ series, which returned for more episodes on Nov. 8. The show is a continuation from Allen’s movies “The Santa Clause” (1994), “The Santa Clause 2” (2002) and “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause” (2006).
“I’m not judging other shows. [But] this began with a director named John Pasquin, who added heart to Scott Calvin,” Allen told The Post. “So it wasn’t only a comedy. It really put one other layer onto this about his family and about what he’s. And as we’ve opened up and answered the questions, it wasn’t a mistake that Scott Calvin was picked.”
“And that Santa, as we discover out in last season, he didn’t die when he slid off the roof. He turned back in they usually had decided — the legendary figures and the Santa Clause — to show him into Santa Clause. And so it’s his personality that’s needed. You needed this guy. Christmas needed this guy. And I really like all that.”
The “Toy Story” actor “loved” how Scott is an “emotional guy” and that writers showed “all of his flaws.”
“I mean, clearly, he’s pretty perfect. The actor, I used to be capable of bring the perfection out of this guy,” Allen laughed, giving himself a pat on the back.
“I said that he’s a flawed individual. And really knows in a few scenes — I really like when he accepts [Sandra’s] magic. And he said, ‘Take a look at where we’re,’” he recalled. “He’s aware of the magic that he’s in. … The magic is there. The humanness is absolutely, really responsive.”
Luckily for Allen, his red outfit can be something to rave about — after initially coping with a really heavy and hot fat suit on the movie sets.
“The costumers and the makeup people have gotten very, superb at this where it could not last as long on camera, but I’m not in it. It doesn’t take 3.5 hours of very uncomfortable procedure to get in it. Now they’ll get it into the hour and a half zone,” the actor explained. “That part is best, a lot better than it was. I don’t get all of the sympathy. ‘Oh, poor guy. Here, have some candy.’ I mean, I don’t get that anymore.”
What’s also modified is his scene partner.
“He at all times told me so as to add value to what I used to be saying,” Allen-Dick said of what acting advice her dad has given her. “So even when I used to be reading lines off of a script … that another person wrote, I can still make it my very own, which is absolutely vital for character development.”
“The Santa Clauses” drops recent episodes Wednesdays on Disney+.
There’s just one Saint Nick in Tim Allen’s house. The “Home Improvement” alum admitted – after his daughter seamlessly roasted him — that he’ll only watch a Santa Claus movie if it’s, well, his own.
“Every Christmas we watch all three of them,” Elizabeth Allen-Dick told The Post in a joint interview for Season 2 of “The Santa Clauses.”
“We do watch other movies! Not many,” the vet actor chimed in. “We do watch other people, other actors.”
In accordance with Allen-Dick, nevertheless, the alternatives are very limited.
She deadpanned: “But he also won’t watch another Santa Claus movies aside from himself.”
“No, I don’t mind ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’” he teased. “But Santa Claus movies I get form of proprietary about.” (He also watches his and Jamie Lee Curtis’ 2004 comedy “Christmas with the Kranks.”)
The “Last Man Standing” alum, 70, has specific Santa requirements too.
“I can’t watch one other Santa Claus movie. Especially once they’re bad Santas,” he elaborated to The Post. “I do know there are those that just like the ugly Santa movies but sometimes I’m like, ‘Eh, I don’t know if I like bad Santas.’ You understand, dressed up with knives and stabbing. I don’t like that.”
Allen-Dick further teased her famous dad, noting that not watching his own work is the very “opposite of him.”
“Wow, wow, that’s hurtful,” Allen said.
“You think that in another way?” she questioned.
“No, I don’t mind watching myself,” he relented. “I don’t, like, stare at myself within the mirror greater than an hour a day.”
The daddy-daughter pair star as Scott Calvin (Santa) and Sandra, respectively, on the Disney+ series, which returned for more episodes on Nov. 8. The show is a continuation from Allen’s movies “The Santa Clause” (1994), “The Santa Clause 2” (2002) and “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause” (2006).
“I’m not judging other shows. [But] this began with a director named John Pasquin, who added heart to Scott Calvin,” Allen told The Post. “So it wasn’t only a comedy. It really put one other layer onto this about his family and about what he’s. And as we’ve opened up and answered the questions, it wasn’t a mistake that Scott Calvin was picked.”
“And that Santa, as we discover out in last season, he didn’t die when he slid off the roof. He turned back in they usually had decided — the legendary figures and the Santa Clause — to show him into Santa Clause. And so it’s his personality that’s needed. You needed this guy. Christmas needed this guy. And I really like all that.”
The “Toy Story” actor “loved” how Scott is an “emotional guy” and that writers showed “all of his flaws.”
“I mean, clearly, he’s pretty perfect. The actor, I used to be capable of bring the perfection out of this guy,” Allen laughed, giving himself a pat on the back.
“I said that he’s a flawed individual. And really knows in a few scenes — I really like when he accepts [Sandra’s] magic. And he said, ‘Take a look at where we’re,’” he recalled. “He’s aware of the magic that he’s in. … The magic is there. The humanness is absolutely, really responsive.”
Luckily for Allen, his red outfit can be something to rave about — after initially coping with a really heavy and hot fat suit on the movie sets.
“The costumers and the makeup people have gotten very, superb at this where it could not last as long on camera, but I’m not in it. It doesn’t take 3.5 hours of very uncomfortable procedure to get in it. Now they’ll get it into the hour and a half zone,” the actor explained. “That part is best, a lot better than it was. I don’t get all of the sympathy. ‘Oh, poor guy. Here, have some candy.’ I mean, I don’t get that anymore.”
What’s also modified is his scene partner.
“He at all times told me so as to add value to what I used to be saying,” Allen-Dick said of what acting advice her dad has given her. “So even when I used to be reading lines off of a script … that another person wrote, I can still make it my very own, which is absolutely vital for character development.”
“The Santa Clauses” drops recent episodes Wednesdays on Disney+.
