According to The Hollywood Reporter, Casey Wilson (Gone Girl) has recently accused Tim Allen (Home Improvement) of allegedly being rude on the set of The Santa Clauses. During a conversation on the Bitch Sesh podcast, Wilson opened up about her experience on the set of the series after guest starring 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 according to The Hollywood Reporter. Wilson said she buried the story until now due to one of the show’s producers being a great friend as well as her children loving the movie franchise that the series is based on. Since The Santa Clauses is a sequel to the other films featuring Allen as Santa Claus, he has been the face of the franchise. The films include The Santa Clause, The Santa Clause 2, and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Wilson recalled her time on the set and said, “So I’m in a scene. It’s just me and Tim Allen and I’m supposed to throw things at him. 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.’”
Wilson added, “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.”
Wilson also recalled and said, “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. 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.‘”
Casey Wilson only appeared in one episode of the series which is available to stream on Disney+.