Tim Allen has been accused of being “so fucking rude” on the set of the Disney+ series The Santa Clauses by his former co-star Casey Wilson.
The Saturday Night Live alum recently opened up on the Bitch Sesh podcast, according to media reports, about her experience filming the show, in which she guest starred in the pilot episode.
“Tim Allen was such a bitch. It was the truly single worst experience I’ve ever had with a co-star ever,” Wilson said, adding that she had “buried this” story until now because one of the show’s producers is “a great friend” of hers and because her children “loved the movies”.
The Santa Clauses is a sequel to Allen’s trilogy, 1994’s The Santa Clause, 2002’s The Santa Clause 2 and 2006’s The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause.
“So I’m in a scene. It’s just me and Tim Allen and I’m supposed to throw things at him,” Wilson recalled. “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.”
The Gone Girl actress continued to explain, “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.’”
Wilson added that “everybody was walking on eggshells” around Allen while on set, noting that “people just looked frantic.”
“When he was done, he was so fucking rude. Never made eye contact, never said anything. It was so uncomfortable,” she said, adding that Allen left abruptly once they finished filming the scene.
“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 remembered. “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.‘”
The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Allen’s rep for comment.
The first two seasons of The Santa Clauses, in which Allen stars as Santa Claus/Scott Calvin, are currently streaming on Disney+.
