We’ve seen Tim Allen called many things by many people, but not necessarily this particular descriptor by a Disney project co-star. Allen has been a fairly controversial personality for the House of Mouse, and has always been outspoken about his various feelings about politics, religion, and entertainment.
Turns out, he was NOT a jolly old soul to work with, says one “The Santa Clauses” co-star. The series is a continuation of the films Allen starred in, where Scott Calvin inadvertently becomes the new Santa. The first movie was so popular, it spawned two sequels, and eventually the Disney+ series.
Actress Casey Wilson, who appears in the pilot episode of the series which released in 2022, has some things to say about her co-star.
“Tim Allen was such a bitch. It was the truly single worst experience I’ve ever had with a co-star ever,” Wilson said on a recent episode of her “Bitch Sesh” podcast. “So I’m in a scene. It’s just me and Tim Allen and I’m supposed to throw things at him,” Wilson remembered. “I think he’s a burglar. So he’s coming down the chimney, obviously as Santa, and I am woken up thinking there’s an intruder, basically like a home invasion scene. So I’m throwing things at him. [He] goes over to the producer who is standing four feet from me and goes, and I hear him, he goes, ‘You gotta tell her to stop stepping on my lines.’ The producer turns to me with horror on his face and has to walk one foot to me and he goes, ‘Um, Tim would ask that you stop stepping on his lines.’ When he was done, he was so fucking rude. Never made eye contact, never said anything. It was so uncomfortable.”
Wilson goes so far as to say she “buried this” because “a producer on the show is a great friend of hers.” And also because “her kids loved the movies.”
“It’s the end, and Tim Allen goes, ‘Leaving!,’ takes his Santa cape, picks it up and drops it on the floor and walks out,” Wilson she contiued. “And they hustle in his stand-in; lovely man, who was much nicer to act against. People are scurrying to pick up his velvet Santa coat. He’s a bitch. And this is the best… I will not say who said this. This was someone that I do not know, perhaps in the crew. [He or she] breezes past me and just goes, ‘You’re seeing him on a good day.‘”
Reps for Allen have yet to comment.
