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Fred Claus Press Conference
Do you remember a time when your faith in Santa Claus may have been shaken in your childhood?
Vince Vaughn: “I remember the day I had neighbors that let me know, I was 6 years old, that there was no Santa Claus. They go, ‘You know there’s not a Santa Claus, right?’ And of course covering in front of them I was like, ‘Well, yeah. Of course there’s not a Santa Claus, guys.’ Then I went to my sisters and they said, ‘Okay, now you know the painful truth. There is not a Santa Claus.’ I was the youngest. They said, ‘Don’t tell mom and dad because then we may not get gifts anymore. You got to keep pretending that you think there is Santa Claus, or you are not going to get any gifts.’
I was like 16 going, ‘Dad, when is Santa coming down?’ My dad was like ‘Look, it’s getting weird. You are getting older, you know there’s not a Santa. We’re going to keep giving gifts, but there is no Santa. You know that, right?’ I said, ‘You’re going to keep giving gifts? Yeah, there is no Santa. I get that. I totally get that.’ That was my experience with it, but I can’t speak for this group of angels that are sitting up here.”
Kevin Spacey: “I never lost my faith in Santa Claus.”
Paul Giamatti: “I was never buying it. I never bought it. It never made sense to me. It didn’t add up, never bought it. The Easter Bunny, for some reason, I bought.”
Vince Vaughn: “What's funny about Paul is we just did this fun short for the World Series with these kids. We did Fred Claus kind of coaching. We did the whole thing and it was over, one of the kids, he had to be about 9 or 10, came running up to me afterwards. He goes, ‘Hey, Fred.’ I felt like Joe Green in that Coca Cola commercial. He’s like, ‘Hey, Fred.’ I turned and looked at him, I said ‘Yeah.’ He says, ‘Tell your brother to get me something this year.’ I looked at him and I said, ‘Oh, I got you. I got you.’ So, now I’m just hoping that this guy is getting something good. Otherwise he’s going to hunt me down.”
