Vince VaughnandPeter Billingsleyare exploring the history of big-screen holiday movies in a new project.
Featuring interviews with cast members and filmmakers, the podcast will cover classics likeHome Alone(1990),National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation(1989), Vaughn’sFour Christmases(2008),It’s a Wonderful Life(1946),How the Grinch Stole Christmas(2000) and, of course, 1983’sA Christmas Story, in which Billingsley, now 51, played Ralphie. (Hereprises the role in the new sequelA Christmas Story Christmas, now streaming on HBO Max.)
Guests on the Audiorama podcast include Beverly D’Angelo (Christmas Vacation), Jeffrey Kimball and Vaughn (Four Christmases), Julio Macat (Home Alone), and Ian Petrella, R. D. Robb and Scott Schwartz (A Christmas Story).
A Christmas Story Christmas(2022).Yana BLAJEVA
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Vaughn and Billingsley produced the new holidayparody movieChristmas with the Campbells, which Vaughn also co-wrote. Vaughn also producedA Christmas Story Christmas, which Billingsley and podcast co-host Schenk wrote together. Billingsley also directed Vaughn in the 2009 comedyCouple’s Retreatand they worked together on 2006’sThe Break-Up.
Billingsley recently told PEOPLE about meeting “lifelong friend” Vaughn when he was 18 and they were trying to make it in Los Angeles.
“We just kind of became good buddies. He was a great, funny, cool guy and it was obvious he was talented,” Billingsley said of Vaughn, adding that he was aware of hisChristmas Storynotoriety at the time: “He knew me. And it was right around the time when that one— because when it first came out it didn’t do very well. It was over time that the originalChristmas Storybuilt an audience. But he had been one of the early adopters, so he really liked it. He knew me from it. It’s so crazy to think of, but I had a little bit of fame, I guess.”
source: people.com
