Engaged on a Christmas present needs to be enjoyable, however for Casey Wilson, appearing with Tim Allen on The Santa Clauses was something however a holly jolly good time.
“Tim Allen was such a bitch,” Wilson, 43, mentioned on a current episode of her “Bitch Sesh” podcast through Selection. “It was the actually single worst expertise I’ve ever had with a costar ever.”
Wilson visitor starred on the 2022 pilot episode of Disney+’s The Santa Clauses. The sequence, which is the continuation of The Santa Clause movie trilogy, is at the moment in its second season. It follows Scott Calvin a.ok.a. Santa Claus (Allen) as he navigates his subsequent chapter within the North Pole after realizing that he must discover a successor. Wilson, for her half, portrayed the grownup model of 1994’s Sara, the little woman who gave Santa soy milk after he mentioned he was lactose illiberal.
Whereas Wilson filmed her episode with Allen, 70, greater than a 12 months in the past, she revealed on her podcast that she “buried” the story about her expertise as a result of she’s “nice” mates with a producer on the sequence. The Blissful Endings alum additionally famous that her youngsters “liked the flicks,” so she stored her alleged on-set points underneath wraps.
Wilson proceeded to recount capturing a scene with Allen by which she was “alleged to throw issues” at him as a result of her character thinks he’s a burglar and never Santa coming down the chimney.
“So I’m throwing issues at him. [He] goes over to the producer who’s standing 4 toes from me and goes, and I hear him, he goes, ‘You gotta inform her to cease stepping on my traces,’” Wilson alleged. “The producer turns to me with horror on his face and has to stroll one foot to me and he goes, ‘Um, Tim would ask that you simply cease stepping on his traces.’”
The Bodily actress remembered considering that “everyone was strolling on eggshells” when Allen was on set. Along with allegedly being scolded for the road mishap, Wilson mentioned when the Dwelling Enchancment alum was accomplished, “he was so f–king impolite” and allegedly “by no means made eye contact, by no means mentioned something.”
Wilson famous the entire scenario was “so uncomfortable” however not unusual, based on an alleged dialog she had with a crew member. “It’s the tip [of the scene], and Tim Allen goes, ‘Leaving!’ [He] takes his Santa cape, picks it up and drops it on the ground and walks out,” Wilson recalled. “They usually hustle in his stand-in; beautiful man, who was a lot nicer to behave towards. Persons are scurrying to select up his velvet Santa coat. He’s a bitch.”
As soon as Allen exited the stage, Wilson claimed that “somebody that I have no idea, maybe within the crew” commented on the scenario. “[He or she] breezes previous me and simply goes, ‘You’re seeing him on a great day,’” she alleged.
Whereas Allen has but to touch upon Wilson’s allegations, he beforehand revealed that he has had one main mess up whereas enjoying Scott Calvin/Santa. Whereas filming Santa Clause 2 in 2002, Allen by chance dropped an F-bomb.
“It was like cats. They wouldn’t depart me alone. I’m dressed like Santa Claus. I seem like Santa Claus. We had a North Pole set,” he mentioned of working with so many youngsters throughout a January 2021 look on The Kelly Clarkson Present, noting that after hours within the go well with he grew “very indignant” when two youngsters began to argue and delay the shoot.
Allen continued: “Fifteen takes later, the children mentioned another phrase and I let loose the loudest F-bomb. And I circled, and there are 12 youngsters who seem like you had ripped their legs off. Their Santa has simply screamed the F-bomb.”
Regardless of the awkward scene, Allen selected to reprise his position within the Disney+ sequence and the present quickly grew to become a household affair. His real-life daughter Elizabeth Allen-Dick performs his TV daughter, Sandra, which has been a present for Allen.
“It’s a kind of moments that I’ll carry with me perpetually,” he completely informed Us Weekly in December. “To see the skilled that she’s became, [she] treats everyone properly, exhibits up on time, does her job, works lengthy hours, [with] no complaints.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Allen’s rep for remark.