Tim Allen Talks About Why Retirement is not in his Vocabulary
In 1994 Tim Allen put on the big red suit in Disney’s The Santa Claus; a film that has spawned two sequels and now a Disney+ series. At 69, Allen recently told Fox News that he has no intention of stopping or slowing down.
Allen loved working with his 13-year-old daughter Elizabeth-Allen Dick on the most recent Santa Claus project. “It was the most amazing thing in the world to see my kid in the summer, and I had very little to do with it,” Allen said.
Allen said Elizabeth was originally going to star as a background elf on “The Santa Clauses,” before being cast as Sandra Calvin-Claus, Scott’s daughter. He said that he did not have any part in his daughter being cast in the series and he preferred to stay away from the auditions.
“She just kept drilling it,” Allen said of Elizabeth. “I mean, literally, it’s like a golfer that constantly is hitting that pitching wedge on the green.”
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When it comes to playing Santa, Allen said “You know, you get around that suit, and I haven’t changed. It’s become that stupid thing, and it ain’t me,” he began. “I’m nowhere near as nice as that guy. It’s just amazing how I become that guy, walk on set and people react to it, and I honor it. I don’t make any jokes anymore as I watch my performance, and I literally think I’m better as Santa Claus than I am as anything else because I think for any actor to tease or put on a costume, it’s easy to become that thing.”
While putting on the suit to play Santa was easy, taping for Disney+ was more of an adjustment for Allen. “This is a new format for me, and then I can get my head around it creatively. It’s not a television show. It’s not a movie. It’s what we’ve been forced, challenged to do now is a hybrid. It’s a long movie or a very produced, very creatively elevated television program.”
When asked about retirement, Allen turned to his long-standing relationship with ABC and Disney. “Once I started coming to Disney and doing ‘Home Improvement’ or ‘Last Man Standing’ or getting on sets, I love every second of it,” he shared. “I don’t ever feel like I’m working so that I don’t know how to not do this.”
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Tim Allen still loves to make people laugh and stated, “I don’t know if my buddy [Jay] Leno ever said it this way. He asked me one time, ‘Why?’ I go – ‘I have had a house in Mexico for many, many, many years.’ And he goes, ‘What do you what do you do there?’ And I said, ‘Well, I don’t know,’ and he says, ‘Retire is just another word for die. Waiting to die.’ And I go, ‘You know, I never thought of it that way, Jay. And I wish you hadn’t said that.”
“I have two friends that love their retirement – they play tennis. They get up and have a leisurely breakfast with the wife. They love their retirement. It takes me almost my entire vacation to finally have two days of relaxation because I love what I do.”
It seems like Tim Allen isn’t ready to play tennis just yet, and given that the Santa Clauses has been renewed for a second season, Scott Calvin isn’t ready to hang up his red hat and boots for the courts yet either.
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