Kurt Russell wants Santa to be the last role he plays

For many generations of fans, Kurt Russell is the ultimate badass, playing a range of Snake Plissken’s alpha male roles in Escape to New York to Wyatt Earp in tomb stone. Now director Chris Columbus has revealed in a conversation with Yahoo Entertainment that Russell, who plays Santa Claus in their new movie The Christmas Chronicles 2, wants the role of Saint Nick to be the last he plays.

“[Kurt] said to me: “I want to go into the sunset, this is the last role I play. He wants to keep doing it. Deep in his soul, he engaged in this role. That means eight weeks of growing a beard with little extra frills, working with the script every night before filming with me. It’s an intense commitment. And he takes it very seriously. “

While fans might argue that Kurt Russell will forever be known as Snake or whatever iconic role he’s played, his role as Santa is no less memorable. Especially since, as Columbus has continued to reveal, Russell’s approach to his latest role was to prepare for it with all the intensity of a seasoned actor.

“When a guy plays Santa, most of the time it’s not taken seriously. When Kurt Russell plays Santa, he writes 170 pages about the guy’s backstory and mythology. engagement of an actor. He is engaged in that role in a way that you would expect [Robert] De Niro engages with Jake LaMotta [in Raging Bull]. When you see that kind of passion in an actor, playing a role that some people don’t take seriously, you realize that I want to go. “

Netflix The Christmas Chronicles 2 follows the surprise success of the 2018 holidays Christmas chronicles. The first film in the series saw a younger brother and sister who had suffered personal tragedy meet the real Santa Claus, played by Russell. In his own words, Columbus describes the film as “essentially a remake of my first film, Adventures in childcare, an evening in town with Santa Claus. “

The sequel sees the little girl from the first film, now a cynical teenager, travel to the North Pole to help Santa and his wife, played by Goldie Hawn, foil a plot by an evil elf to cancel Christmas forever. It is not exactly Citizen Kane-level of storytelling, but the success of the original film in the franchise has made Netflix believe that The Christmas Chronicles 2 will also be a big hit with the public. If Russell’s final role as an actor is one that spreads good spirits during these tough times, it’s certainly not a bad way to go.

Directed by Chris Columbus, based on a screenplay by Columbus, Matt Lieberman and Axel Gugenreedburg, The Christmas Chronicles 2 stars a main cast consisting of Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn, Judah Lewis, Darby Camp, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Julian Dennison and Tyrese Gibson. This news comes from Yahoo.