Getting in the spirit! As the most wonderful time of the year nears, celebrities like Taylor Swift and Orlando Bloom are ringing in the holidays with their favorite flicks.
Just like Us, celebrities have a movie they love to watch as the holidays approach. While some love Macaulay Culkin taking down the bad guys in Home Alone, others prefer to watch Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) nearly shoot his eye out in the less-kid friendly A Christmas Story. For everyone who can’t get enough of the modern rom-com Love Actually, there is someone who prefers to press play on the classic It’s a Wonderful Life.
Jack Black, for example, revealed in 2019 his go-to festive movie is one of the more recent additions to the Christmas movie canon. “My favorite holiday film is, you know what, it’s got to be Elf, because once again [director] Jon Favreau … and Will Ferrell just knock it out of the park,” he told Variety at the time. The reporter then complimented his “humility” by not naming his own Christmas movie.
“Do I have a Christmas movie? Which one is mine?” he asked, before remembering. “Oh, The Holiday! Obviously, The Holiday. [Director] Nancy Meyers … genius!”
The 2006 romantic comedy also starred Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz and Jude Law and quickly became a fan favorite.
“The funny thing is that I did a lot of acting on my own, and just with Jude. Because we only had one scene with Jack and Kate. Our characters never crossed over. Basically, Kate and Jack did their movie; Jude and I did ours,” Diaz said of the experience in December 2020. “We only had the one scene at the end, where we all came together, and we shot that kind of at the beginning of the [shoot].”
She added, “Jude and I had a lot of fun shooting our bits. But I mean, there’s a lot of scenes where Amanda’s just kind of trudging along on her own. Trying to figure out her life. And I’m just acting with Nancy the whole time, which was a lot of fun.”
Like Black, Zooey Deschanel didn’t choose her own film, Elf, as her yuletide favorite. Instead, she went with a 1944 musical starring Judy Garland.
“I like Meet Me in St. Louis,” she told Entertainment Weekly in 2020. “It’s not all Christmas, but [it has] the themes of home and family and those are deep, holiday themes to me.”
From Charlie Brown Christmas Special to National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, scroll down to find out what films the stars are all about once the weather cools down!
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Taylor Swift, Orlando Bloom and More Celebrities Share Their Favorite Holiday Movies
Getting in the spirit! As the most wonderful time of the year nears, celebrities like Taylor Swift and Orlando Bloom are ringing in the holidays with their favorite flicks.
Just like Us, celebrities have a movie they love to watch as the holidays approach. While some love Macaulay Culkin taking down the bad guys in Home Alone, others prefer to watch Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) nearly shoot his eye out in the less-kid friendly A Christmas Story. For everyone who can’t get enough of the modern rom-com Love Actually, there is someone who prefers to press play on the classic It’s a Wonderful Life. Jack Black, for example, revealed in 2019 his go-to festive movie is one of the more recent additions to the Christmas movie canon. “My favorite holiday film is, you know what, it’s got to be Elf, because once again [director] Jon Favreau … and Will Ferrell just knock it out of the park,” he told Variety at the time. The reporter then complimented his “humility” by not naming his own Christmas movie. “Do I have a Christmas movie? Which one is mine?” he asked, before remembering. “Oh, The Holiday! Obviously, The Holiday. [Director] Nancy Meyers … genius!” [jwplayer WvdC8OmJ-zhNYySv2] The 2006 romantic comedy also starred Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz and Jude Law and quickly became a fan favorite. “The funny thing is that I did a lot of acting on my own, and just with Jude. Because we only had one scene with Jack and Kate. Our characters never crossed over. Basically, Kate and Jack did their movie; Jude and I did ours,” Diaz said of the experience in December 2020. “We only had the one scene at the end, where we all came together, and we shot that kind of at the beginning of the [shoot].” She added, “Jude and I had a lot of fun shooting our bits. But I mean, there’s a lot of scenes where Amanda’s just kind of trudging along on her own. Trying to figure out her life. And I’m just acting with Nancy the whole time, which was a lot of fun.” Like Black, Zooey Deschanel didn’t choose her own film, Elf, as her yuletide favorite. Instead, she went with a 1944 musical starring Judy Garland. “I like Meet Me in St. Louis,” she told Entertainment Weekly in 2020. “It’s not all Christmas, but [it has] the themes of home and family and those are deep, holiday themes to me.”
From Charlie Brown Christmas Special to National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, scroll down to find out what films the stars are all about once the weather cools down!
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Kerry Washington: ‘Elf’
“We watch the movie Elf once a year,” the Scandal alum tweeted in December 2022. “And every single year I’m like: WHY DONT I WATCH THIS ALL YEAR LONG?! It just makes me so happy. Belly laughs every viewing. Merry and Happy!!!!”
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Dolly Parton: ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
The “I Will Always Love You” singer told Entertainment Weekly in 2020 that watching the James Stewart film is an annual tradition. “We watch that every year, like everybody does! I love watching that every year,” she said at the time.
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Taylor Swift: ‘Love Actually’
The Grammy winner opened up about her love for the film during an interview with Teen Vogue in May 2014: “Did you ever watch the movie Love Actually where Hugh Grant’s voiceover says, ‘If you look around, love actually is all around?’ That’s my favorite motto.”
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Zooey Deschanel: ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’
The Elf actress admitted that the musical spans a full year, starting in summer. However, “the story culminates on Christmas,” she told EW in 2020. “So it feels like a Christmas movie.” No arguing with her there.
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Claire Danes: ‘A Christmas Story’
The Family Stone actress told EW in 2020 that the 1993 film has a soft spot in her heart “because I watched it when I was 4 with my brother, who’s seven years older, in the theater.”
However, Danes admitted that she was a little “traumatized” after watching it at such a young age. “I guess it was the first time that I saw visions of the holiday as distorted and perverse,” she said. “It just had a real wallop, because I was too little to really take it in comfortably.”
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Dermot Mulroney: ‘Elf’
Danes’ Family Stone costar told Entertainment Weekly in 2020 that he appreciated the 2003 comedy for being “the high point on the ‘infantilized American man in un-normal circumstances’ genre of comedy that we have hopefully come through.”
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Christine Baranski: ‘White Christmas’
The Mamma Mia! actress watches the 1954 film every year with a box of Kleenex. “That movie gets to me every time!” she told EW in 2020. “And I think that’s the power of a Christmas movie, it can have the power to go straight to your heart.”
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Orlando Bloom: ‘When Harry Met Sally’
“When Harry Met Sally is one of my favorite films from my childhood,” the actor once said, according to BuzzFeed. “It never gets old.”
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Amber Tamblyn: ‘The Big Lebowski’
“I think I really liked to watch The Big Lebowski. There’s just something about that movie, I’m not sure what it is, and I know a lot of people feel the same way,” Tamblyn told Entertainment Weekly in December 2014.
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Lucy Hale: ‘National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation’
The Pretty Little Liars alum revealed her go-to holiday movie in December 2014 during an interview with Zap2it.
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Kenan Thompson: ‘Elf’
Thompson has spoofed the beloved Christmas film on Saturday Night Live.
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Emma Roberts: ‘Just Friends’
The American Horror Story actress told Parade in 2013 that Just Friends is one of her “holiday must movies.” She added: “I want to be in a Christmas movie so bad. I think that would be so much fun to film a Christmas movie.”
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Chris Rock: ‘Bad Santa’
The comedian is a fan of the 2003 flick, per BuzzFeed.
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Kathy Bates: ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
“As I got older, I always wanted to play the angel Clarence. He was the most fun,” Bates told Parade in December 2013 of why the holiday classic always brings her to tears. “But my favorite part is when his brother, who’s in the Navy, bursts in the door at the very end and toasts George. ‘To my brother George, the richest man in town!’”
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Nick Offerman: ‘Charlie Brown Christmas Special’
“[My wife] Megan [Mullally] and I love the Vince Guaraldi record that accompanies the Charlie Brown Christmas Special,” the Parks and Recreation alum told Entertainment Weekly in December 2014. “I try to issue the materialism of Christmas and instead give gifs of myself and my time to my family and loved ones, whether than buy them some bulls—t from a website.”
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Brie Larson: ‘The Year Without a Santa Claus’
“I love all the Claymation movies. The Heat Miser and the Snow Miser from The Year Without a Santa Claus are so great,” the Captain Marvel star told Parade in December 2013.
