Celebrities don’t need rosy cheeks, a white beard or a big belly (full of jelly) to look like Santa Claus. Some stars have tried their hand at dressing up as jolly old Saint Nick for the holiday season, while others have done so for fun or for roles.
Tim Allen, for one, famously portrayed Santa in 1994’s The Santa Clause, 2002’s The Santa Clause 2 and 2006’s The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause. Most recently, the actor starred in the Disney+ show The Santa Clauses, which aired in 2022.
In 2017, the actor reflected on the three-and-a-half hours it took to transform into the character with a fat suit and makeup.
“I’ve since then admired Eddie Murphy and Jim Carrey, of course — anybody who’s done these fat suits, there’s no way to get around how uncomfortable that is,” Allen told 20/20, noting that he could not be in the suit for longer than six hours because of a lack of ventilation. “I don’t know how these other guys did it.”
The costume caused other problems too. “The original coat we did for the first movie was real velvet. It had filigree all over it,” Allen explained. “It also had tiny little bells everywhere. … [We] didn’t really [know] how obnoxious it would be.”
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Allen had to redo much of the audio after filming as a result. “I ADRed [Automatic Dialog Replacement] most of that film because people [said], ‘What’s all that ringing?’ And it was me walking,” he said.
Scroll through the gallery below to see stars rocking their takes on Santa’s suit:
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