How These Actors Love to Celebrate Christmas
By Movieguide® Contributor
The Christmas season is upon us, a time to reflect on the family and holiday traditions we celebrate with those we love.
The cast of JINGLE JANGLE: A CHRISTMAS JOURNEY previously shared some of their special holiday traditions with Movieguide®.
“It was always trying to sneak and unwrap the gifts that my mother tried to hide,” writer and director David E. Talburt recalled of his childhood Christmas ritual. “But she had two boys and that was never gonna work. You know, and so my brother was older, and he would always sniff it out, and then get me to actually do the unwrapping so that I could get caught. He wouldn’t get caught, but that was always a fun thing for us, we always found gifts.”
Actor Forest Whitaker shared special traditions that he shares with his children. “It was just, you know the kids getting their little packing done…they’re cracking up their presents and stuff for the next day. Then having to read ‘The Night Before Christmas’ to them before they went to bed…just snuck tucking them in and then waiting for the next morning.”
Keegan-Michael Key told Movieguide® that although he didn’t really have any traditions growing up, he now shares a special one with his wife.
“You know, the only really Christmas tradition that I even think about nowadays is the one that I have with my wife. Because we live in New York City…what we’ll do is we’ll get on the train, and we’ll go up to Rockefeller Center and look at the tree. That’s your way of telling yourself ‘Okay the season is upon us,’” he shared.
What traditions did you have as a child, and did you start new ones with your family as an adult?
Watching beloved Christmas movies might be a good place to start. Part of Movieguide®’s review for JINGLE JANGLE: A CHRISTMAS JOURNEY reads:
JINGLE JANGLE: A CHRISTMAS JOURNEY is enjoyable, exciting and heartfelt. The music is fun, and the dancing is energetic. JINGLE JANGLE has a strong moral, redemptive worldview stressing love, family and forgiveness and including positive references to Christmas and prayer. The characters sing about Christmas many times and about positive themes of love and forgiveness. JINGLE JANGLE does talk about magic, but it’s the magic of invention and imagination, much like the MOVIEGUIDE® Award winning movie HUGO. JINGLE JANGLE: A CHRISTMAS JOURNEY is a good movie for families, but there’s some light jeopardy involving children and focus on belief, but not Jesus.
READ MORE: SADIE ROBERTSON HUFF ON IMPORTANCE OF CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS: ‘HOPE FOR THE FUTURE’
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