‘The Santa Clauses’ Star Kal Penn Reveals Simon Could ‘Potentially Be The Next Santa Claus’ (Exclusive)

There’s a caller Santa Claus coming to town, and it conscionable mightiness extremity up being Simon, a caller quality successful The Santa Clauses TV show. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Kal Penn astir however Simon ends up connected the shortlist to perchance instrumentality implicit from Scott Calvin.

Kal Penn and Rupali Redd successful ‘The Santa Clauses.’ (Disney+)

“Simon is simply a tech bro. He’s created from scratch this unthinkable transportation strategy tech institution wherever helium uses drones to benignant of get things to radical who request them — possibly based connected immoderate things successful the existent world. But he’s a azygous dada and his existent relationship, the closeness of his life, is his narration with his daughter.”

He continued, “So erstwhile Santa decides he’s retiring, Santa’s son, played by Austin Kane, is simply a large instrumentality of Simon and Simon’s company. That’s fundamentally however Simon becomes 1 of the galore radical who gets to interrogation to perchance beryllium the adjacent Santa Claus. But implicit the arc of the season, you truly get a consciousness of benignant of whether Simon really truly believes successful the tone of Christmas, oregon whether helium has been co-opted by greed and that narration with his daughter, with his kid, that truly brings him backmost to knowing the existent meaning of Christmas.”

Kal’s onscreen daughter, Grace, is played by the adorable Rupali Redd. Grace is astatine the halfway of Simon’s motivation. “She besides grounds who Simon is, right? So the information that she mislaid her mom, I mislaid my wife, is the backdrop of truthful overmuch of what motivates Simon professionally and wherefore he’s — I don’t privation to accidental overbearing — but possibly wherefore he’s overly protective of his kid,” Kal told HollywoodLife.

Kal Penn arsenic Simon successful ‘The Santa Clauses.’ (Disney+)

The histrion gushed that the young histrion is an “incredible actress.” He added, “I don’t cognize what her rehearsal process was similar astatine location with her parents, but she conscionable came successful and nailed it each day. Made my occupation a batch easier.”

Prior to getting cast, manager and EP Jason Winer emailed Kal astir a relation successful his “secret vacation movie.” Kal noted that helium loves Christmas and, of course, comedy. “So erstwhile I figured retired what it was and work the scripts, I couldn’t person been much excited. So this was a truly peculiar one,” Kal admitted. New episodes of The Santa Clauses volition premiere Wednesdays connected Disney+.