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Tim Allen details working with daughter Elizabeth Allen-Dick, 13, on Disney+’s The Santa Clauses: ‘It was tear-jerking to watch’
Tim Allen is opening up about working with his daughter Elizabeth Allen-Dick on the Disney+ miniseries The Santa Clauses.
The 69-year-old actor, speaking with Entertainment Weekly Sunday, spoke about working alongside Elizabeth as she makes her acting debut playing one of Santa’s children with Mrs. Claus (Elizabeth Mitchell) alongside Austin Kane.
Allen opened up about the natural chemistry in the collaboration, saying, ‘My daughter is playing my daughter in the movie.
The latest: Tim Allen, 69, is opening up about working with his daughter Elizabeth Allen-Dick, 13, on the Disney+ miniseries The Santa Clauses. They were snapped in Anaheim, California earlier this month
‘The line kept coming back to me, “Has she ever done this before?”‘ he said. ‘And I said, “No.” But she’s read scripts with me all the time. We got to play all the time as a comedian. I’m that way around the house. She’s able to take a line, make it her own, add value to it and be honest about it. And it was an amazing experience.’
Allen said his daughter made a positive impression on casting directors and got an expanded role in the movie.
‘It’s difficult to believe, but it had very little to do with me,’ Allen said. ‘I wanted to put my youngest daughter as an elf, just so she’d see herself in a movie. But as she was reading for that, she read so well that they said, ”We’d like to read her for more of a part.” I said, ‘Whatever you want to do. I want nothing to do with it.’
He continued: ‘I don’t want to pitch my daughter for a part in the movie. But she ended up moving to the high ranks. They loved how she read, loved it so much, because she’s playing a 13-year-old girl and she is 13. They ended up casting her as Santa’s daughter. It was a surprise but it became the most amazing experience.’
Allen said his daughter made a positive impression on casting directors and got an expanded role in the movie
Allen has played the role of Santa Claus/Scott Calvin in three films from 1994-2006
Allen, who played the role of Santa Claus/Scott Calvin in three films from 1994-2006, described the mystique getting into the famed character.
‘As I walked on set for the first time in the full regalia, everybody got very quiet, both adults and kids,’ Allen told the outlet. ‘When I show up dressed in the full suit and everything else, there’s big smiles on people’s faces. Little kids are quiet. I had totally forgotten that. It does feel like Santa’s in the room.’
The forthcoming mini-series will detail Scott and his family moving from the North Pole to Chicago.
‘I don’t want to give too much away, but she doesn’t want to go,’ he said. ‘So I tell her, “Being afraid is okay as long as we can be afraid together.” Even saying the line, I get a little choked up. I looked right at her.
‘One of my photographer buddies was shooting and said it was tear-jerking to watch. I said, “Well, I’m looking at my kid.” And she literally showed what I learned from Pat Richardson on Home Improvement: Real actors can really emote real emotions. She did it to me there, and I reacted to it, and it was an amazing moment. I’ll never forget it.’
The Santa Clauses will debut with a pair of new episodes on Disney+ November 16.
The Santa Clause grossed $189 million in 1994, and led to a pair of sequels, The Santa Clause 2 (2002) and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)
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