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- Playing Santa Claus is
kind of a big responsibility.

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It's something that, you know,

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could potentially stick with you

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throughout your whole career.

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Besides liking the script
and kind of the team,

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did you, did that come into
mind at all when you were,

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when you decided to take on the role?

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- Worried of being typecast as Santa?

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Just being like, being like,

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we don't want 'em for
this or that, but if,

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if you got a Santa in your
movie, call David Harbour.

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I know, no, I, I, it's a
concern that I should have,

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I'm retroactively thinking about it now

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that it was a terrible
idea to play this role,

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but I actually did not think about that.

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I, you know, 'cause the thing is,

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he's such a unique Santa.

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I mean, he's not, he starts
off as this sort of like,

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you know, guy with the
glasses and the ho ho ho,

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but then as the movie
progresses, he's such a,

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he's such his own beast that
it never really crossed my mind

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that I would be typecast as Santa Claus.

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But now I'm worried, so thank you.

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- It's not exactly typecast, it's that,

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you know, these movies, holiday movies

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have the potential to become
something more, right?

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Like an Elf for a Home Alone,

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that becomes a perennial thing.

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So are you ready to like,

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potentially talk about this
role for the rest of your life?

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(laughing)

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- I mean, Will Ferrell only
did one Elf, didn't he?

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- But he doesn't like
to talk about it now.

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I think he's like sick of it.

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- But he has to talk
about it all the time?

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I know.

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I'm okay.

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We could talk about it
for the rest of my life.

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I'm fine.

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