INTERVIEW WITH ALEC GILLIS (The Santa Clause Franchise)
A Very Merry Iconic Podcast with Danny & Jenna
Danny Pellegrino
5 • 818 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Danny and Jenna have a truly iconic guest named Alec Gillis. Alec is an Academy Award winning artist who is not only responsible for the fat suit, the animatronic reindeer, and the toy soldiers in the Santa Clause franchise, he's also the mastermind behind some of the most amazing special effects and character designs in film. He worked on Death Becomes Her, Nora Ephron's Michael, the Alien franchise, IT, Sorry to Bother You, Jumanji, and SO MUCH MORE. He's a genius and we are happy to have him breaking down his work on The Santa Clause movies and so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, everyone. Hello, and welcome to a very merry iconic podcast. I'm Danny Pellegrino. I'm |
| 0:17.0 | Jenna Brister. Jenna, how are you doing? Fabulous. How are you doing today? I'm so good. We have a very special guest. |
| 0:22.5 | I'm so excited to chat with him. |
| 0:23.8 | His name is Alec Gillis. |
| 0:24.8 | He's an Academy Award-winning animatronic special effects and prosthetic makeup |
| 0:28.5 | effects character creator. |
| 0:31.0 | And also the co-founder of ADI, Alec, how are you doing? |
| 0:34.6 | I'm doing very well. Thank you for inviting me over today. I'm so excited to chat with you because Jenna and I on the show, we've been kind of diving into a lot of these holiday movies. |
| 0:43.8 | And one of the things we noticed that we really loved, I think we were when we were talking about jingle all the way, it was like these animatronic characters that kept appearing. |
| 0:52.3 | And then your daughter was so sweet to reach out. |
| 0:54.4 | And she mentioned some of the things that you've worked on. |
| 0:56.7 | You did all, you worked on all of the Santa Claus movies. |
| 0:59.1 | Yes. |
| 0:59.4 | Yes, the Tim Allen, Santa Claus movies. |
| 1:01.7 | Which are so truly iconic. |
| 1:04.0 | I mean, those movies play all the time this time of year. |
| 1:07.4 | Yes, good for residuals. |
| 1:09.1 | Yes. |
| 1:10.2 | And you did the fat makeup for it. Yeah, yeah. You know what |
| 1:14.0 | was great about those movies was that like these days movies tend to get parsed out and sectioned up and |
| 1:20.5 | they figure for whatever reason they say like, well, if someone's building animatronic reindeer, |
| 1:24.5 | they can't possibly have the talents to also do the makeups. |
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