With Christmas coming very soon, Warner Bros are already celebrating the holiday season with the release of Red One. Starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans, the film is all action and all heart. The film follows Santa (played by J.K. Simmons) who gets kidnapped and his Head of Security (played by Johnson) goes on a rescue mission to get him with a wacky hacker (played by Evans). In a global press conference, the cast reveal what their own Christmas traditions are.
Dwayne Johnson said “just getting family together would be the number one greatest tradition. I know it’s simplistic, but a lot of times when I was growing up, my dad was always on the road, and he wasn’t always home for Christmas. In the business that we’re in, sometimes it requires us to work over the holidays, so, for me, just to have the entire family together is the most important thing. And give me good shit under the tree.”
Chris Evans commented that “we would write letters to Santa on Christmas Eve. I was saying earlier that I’m one of four, and my siblings and I we’re all very close in age, close as people, and on Christmas Eve we would all decide whose room we were going to sleep in. We would have a little sleepover in somebody’s room. We would watch the old TV that had the VCR, and the fun thing was picking what Christmas movie we were going to watch. Then it was about desperately trying to fall asleep and waking up together at the same time.”
Lucy Liu mentioned that she “didn’t grow up with any traditions. It was sort of a free-for-all. But I have a child now, and I realise that you can start your own traditions. You can create them. He gets gifts, of course, but the most important thing now is I always take him on an experience as a gift. Even if it’s as simple as going to the Empire State Building or going to see The Rockettes. Kids always want things, and I didn’t think he’d remember going, but when he tells me that he remembers, it’s like, “Oh, this really works.” Christmas, to me, is all about togetherness. Not unlike what these guys said. But even if you don’t grow up with a tradition or faith, you can create where you are and for any moment in your life.”
Kiernan Shipka agrees saying “it’s all about family and being together, but I also have a very fun holiday party every year. It’s not this year though, it’s not that no one’s been invited, my kitchen is being renovated (laughs). Don’t worry. 2025 will be very fun. But that’s what I do.”
Grab your family together to watch Red One in UK cinemas from 6th November.
