Tim Allen Gushes Over His ‘Amazing’ Daughter Elizabeth, 14, In ‘The Santa Clauses’: She ‘Surprised’ Me (Exclusive)

It was destiny for Elizabeth Allen-Dick, Tim Allen’s real-life daughter, to play Scott Calvin/Santa Claus’ girl successful the Disney+ bid The Santa Clauses. However, Tim told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY that having his 14-year-old play Sandra Claus wasn’t the program from the start. “This was truly rather by accident. I wanted her successful arsenic a astonishment for her and for her mom…” helium said.

Tim stressed that Elizabeth’s roadworthy to getting formed “had thing to bash with me.” But past everyone realized however cleanable Elizabeth was for the role.

Tim Allen and girl Elizabeth Allen-Dick astatine ‘The Santa Clauses’ premiere. (Broadimage/Shutterstock)

He added, “I virtually said I privation to enactment retired of this. Casting said, ‘Oh, she’s astir the close age. We’ll person a work for a portion due to the fact that she could accidental ‘hello’ then.’ She work and happened to beryllium speechmaking Sandra Claus that day, and I said, ‘Literally, I don’t privation this. Not adjacent definite I privation her successful this.’ She work it and adjacent I heard her work and went. ‘Wow, she got the joke.’ There was a truly comic gag successful determination betwixt her and Mrs. Claus successful the scene.”

After going done casting and each the hoops, Elizabeth was offered the role. “It happened truthful naturally, truthful organically, and she earned it. She was large astatine this and amazed some her parent and I,” Tim said.

For Elizabeth, getting the accidental to person her archetypal onscreen relation alongside her dada was a imagination travel true. “I don’t person capable words to explicate it. I had nary thought what to expect, to beryllium honest,” Elizabeth told HollywoodLife. “I mean, I’ve ever been astir sets and astir the concern but not successful it. It was conscionable incredible. It was truthful overmuch fun. I ne'er felt similar I had 1 time of enactment passim the 2 months of shooting. It was ne'er enactment to me. It was ne'er stressful. I was ne'er nervous. It was conscionable truthful overmuch fun.”

This was a unsocial acquisition for the Home Improvement alum arsenic well. “I’m connected set, I’m Tim Allen. At home, I’m dad,” helium said. With The Santa Clauses, helium had to beryllium both. He continued, “There are scenes that I person to woody with my daughter, Sandra Claus, arsenic Santa Claus, that truthful mirrored moments that we’ve had unneurotic arsenic begetter and daughter. I don’t cognize what other to say. That conscionable doesn’t happen. I finished the scene, and we drilled that scene. Everybody said it was emotional. It didn’t wounded that I’m looking astatine my love’s eyes similar this. This is my youngest, and she said it was an astonishing experience. There’s nary mode to picture it. It was amazing.”

Elizabeth wasn’t adjacent live yet when The Santa Clause 3 came retired successful 2006. She revealed however she reacted to seeing her dada successful his Santa Claus costume for the archetypal clip connected set:

Tim Allen with girl Elizabeth Allen-Dick, Elizabeth Mitchell, and much successful ‘The Santa Clauses.’ (Disney+)

“I emotion this story. So it was the 2nd time and the archetypal clip I’d seen him, and we were sitting successful benignant of the Santa country surviving room/area. And it was similar a fractional ellipse and past similar a hallway. I perceive the adjunct manager and he’s connected his walkie and he’s like, ‘Okay, everybody, Tim Allen’s entered the building.’ We got to dispersed out, spell to the sides, and everyone’s conscionable benignant of similar plastered up against the walls. What is happening? And I conscionable spot him crook around. He has the abdominous suit on, helium has the makeup, helium has the hair, and helium comes down that hallway and I got goosebumps… It was conscionable truthful chill to spot however galore radical helium has impacted and with the aged movies and present again, it was conscionable magical. He’s told maine galore times my older sister, who is overmuch older than me, erstwhile she archetypal saw him — she was calved erstwhile the archetypal movie came retired — she cried erstwhile she archetypal saw him. So present I tin brag to her present that I didn’t cry.”

The Santa Clauses volition person a two-episode premiere connected November 16. The amusement volition past driblet 1 caller occurrence a week connected Disney+.