October 25, 2025 • 30 mins
In this episode of Christmas MuVies Spotlight, join hosts Pam and Dawn as they welcome Cal Buckley, star of the brand-new Great American Family holiday film, A Royal Icing Christmas! 🎄✨
You may remember Cal from Season 23 of American Idol, and now he’s bringing his musical talent and charm to the small screen in this sweet royal romance. Pam and Dawn chat with Cal about his experience filming the movie, his journey from the Idol stage to the world of Christmas movies, and what the holiday season means to him.
It’s a fun, festive conversation filled with laughter, inspiration, and plenty of Christmas cheer — the perfect listen for fans of Great American Family holiday films!
You may remember Cal from Season 23 of American Idol, and now he’s bringing his musical talent and charm to the small screen in this sweet royal romance. Pam and Dawn chat with Cal about his experience filming the movie, his journey from the Idol stage to the world of Christmas movies, and what the holiday season means to him.
It’s a fun, festive conversation filled with laughter, inspiration, and plenty of Christmas cheer — the perfect listen for fans of Great American Family holiday films!
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Hello and welcome to the special edition of Christmas Movie Spotlight.
I'm your host, Don Mac and I'm here with my friend,
my colleague, and my co host Pam. Hey, Pam, how
are you.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I'm doing good, my fellow, best friend, my co host,
my colleague. Yeah, I guess I'm good.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I'm still checking along. Excited that we're kind of now
the holiday season is starting to feel like the holiday season.
I think I mentioned before that the weather here is
still cooperating, is still making it feel seasonal. So that's
probably one of the reasons why I'm more excited than
normal this early, because the weather is, you know, it's
(01:05):
it's fit for the season, so it's not too We've
had many false eases where it was so hot you
thought you were still in summer. Indian summer. I think
it is what they call it. But anyway, yes, I'm
here for it. I'm enjoying it. So doing good, doing good.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well, you know me, I'm a walker for my exercise,
and I'm sorry, I just do not like the forty
nine degree weather to go walk, and I really love
the Indian summer back.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Well, yeah, that that is a little too chilly and
that's a little rough on the bones when you're out
walking too. Yes, even though you're walking and you know,
energizing yourself and circulating, you know, keeping your blood flow going,
but still it's still cold.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
No matter how you.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Sice it, what it is is that it's hard to
get yourself motivated to go outside to do it. But
once you're outside, you're fine, because you know, I walk
in winter in the snow. She yelled at me all
the time. It's a pleasure out there. What are you doing?
Or there's a tornado coming? Get back in the house,
I'm telling you, she I do.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I do. But you know, I'm just in the South,
and so things here are so different. It would be
culture shock for you if you ever came in a South.
It's so different from where you live. So so, of course,
when you're telling me you're out walking and you're in
a suburb of Chicago, I'm like, why are you not walking?
And I hear all this traffic behind. Oh, it's just
two streets over. I'm like, no, it's not.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I don't know what do I know?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
She's she's a dared devil, y'all.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I don't know what to say, you know, what I'm
gonna have to do one of these days a daredevil
so funny.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I wouldn't walk out there where you live. I just
wouldn't do it. I'm too much of a scaredy cat.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I know, I know, but one day would I have
to do? And I didn't think about it until just now.
You know, we always talk over the phone. So what
I should do is we should do a video call
one day and I will show you the one busy
street that I walked down for three minute time. You
know that.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I'm okay, we have a failing. You'll just pick a
different route just to make me feel good.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
On the phone when you're walking to know.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
That exactly, you would know, So why would I?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Like, are you downtown Chicago? I mean, what are you doing?
Their buses are gonna hit you? I mean, good lord,
we have fun like that all the time. So anyway, well,
I'm telling you I'm really excited about today's show because
I so enjoyed speaking to our guest, Cal Buckley. And
(03:41):
he is kind of a newbie in the world of
acting and movies, and he is young. I mean, he's
just like out of college and he's already got a
leading role in a movie on Great American Family that's
gonna be airing soon. I mean, this guy was so
much fun to talk to. He he even for you
(04:02):
PGA fans out there, you Golfer fans. He looks like
Scottie Scheffler. He looks like Scotti Scheffler. And he loves
to go. So there's that. That's all I'm gonna say
about cal Buckley.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
But other than I can't.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well that's right, but he but he's starting in in
the movie coming up on a Great American Family, and
we just had a great time talking with him. He's
he's got a long career.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Ahead of him, absolutely, and to get the lead physician
in a movie just coming out of college really says
a lot about him. You know, the man is absolutely talented,
and he's very good looking because you know, Don says
he looks like this Scotty and she said he's good looking.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
So yeah that we don't normally phone over our guests
like that, but you know, right right, so there, you
know what can we say.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Right, I mean, we're just stating facts. I'm glad that's
radio because.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
My face is like five sheetes of red right now.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
But that's okay, it's okay. Let me speak to every
one of our guests is good looking, and that is true,
no matter if it's a woman or a man. You know,
we say to each other, Oh, she's so pretty or
he's so handsome. So you know, it's not anything new.
But be sure to catch Cal Buckley in the holiday
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movie on Great American Family October twenty fifth, and it's
called a Royal Icing Christmas. And you know me with
those Royal movies, those are one of my favorites. I'll
definitely be watching.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, and I was not as big of a fan
of Royal movies, but they've really grant on me. I
love the whole Royal Christmas thing that it just goes
together so perfectly well, and we are so excited and
honored to bring you our interview now with Cal Buckley.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Enjoy the show.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Hi, this is Cal Buckley and you're with Pam and Don.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Hi Carol, welcome to Christmas Movie Spotlight.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
How you doing today, I'm great. Thank you so much
for having me.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Pam, Oh, you're very welcome, and I am so happy,
and I know Don is so happy to speak with
you today. We know how busy you guys are all
the time with your different projects, so we won't keep
you very long, but we did want to find out
some things about you. How did you get started in acting?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I started, like most people in high school, just got
really lucky to have a good theater teacher. And so
I'm from a small town north of Toronto and Canada,
and yeah, I joined a play at Guys and Dolls
and kind of just kept doing it every year, went
back and got to work with some really incredible professionals
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in high school. And then I moved to Los Angeles
when I was eighteen, and I studied acting at the
American Academy Dramatic Arts and have just continued to kind
of hone my craft and and you know, it's obviously
something that I can't seem to stop doing. So that's
how I got started.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, acting, as in any profession that you want to
be really good at, it's a grind.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
It's always you're.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Learning, you're working, you know, and when you're not working,
you're learning in between and doing everything you can. So
have you received any advice from other actors or someone
involved in the industry that helped you with your career?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
So many I would say, like my number one mentor
was my high school drama teacher. And he's directed a
lot of big films, like most recently he directed Bruce
Dern in Northbound, which is coming out next year, like
Academy Award nominee two times over Bruce Dern, And he's
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worked on some really big projects that he's you know,
directed and written himself. His name's William Schooler, And so
he came to me. Well, when I was in fourteen,
I sat in his class. It was my first time
ever in a drama class, and I did it because
I thought it'd be an easy grade. And he said,
I will never tell any one of you to be
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an actor. He was like, I think it is. It
is the worst like thing to do because I have
seen so many people do it and it is so
hard and it is like the hardest route that you
can put yourself on. And he said, but if you
come to me and you tell me that you're going
to be an actor, no matter what I have to
say about it, then maybe I'll help you. So four
years go by and I'm starting to, like, you know,
(08:38):
explore more what I want to do as I graduate
high school, and he's I said him. I said, Will,
I'm going to be an actor. I don't care what
you think. If you're able, would love to get some advice.
And so he kind of set me on a path
to meeting the right teachers at the Academy that we're
able to really sort of put my finger on the
(08:58):
pulse of what the industy street was moving like today,
because this industry has really changed a lot, like it
changes honestly month to month, and so I had some
really like Will was the first person to really put
me on that path. But at the Academy, I had
some really incredible teachers like Adam Chambers and Rob Hahn,
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Amir Krangi, all of them working actors who have just
really navigated twenty thirty forty year careers in an industry
that's changing day to day. And so yeah, it's been
very grateful to have good mentorship.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
What I think he was doing is he was weeding
out the ones that didn't really have it in their blood.
And you obviously got it in your blood to be
an actor.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I hope.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
So yeah, well, I think so well, even with the
four years of being in plays and stuff like that
in high school or even on a killer film set.
Is there a moment in time that really challenged you
or surprised you as a performer.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, I I okay, So when I was like, I've
been doing theater mostly, like, this is my first real
full length film. I'm only twenty one. I just graduated
acting school last year, So I'm not going to come
on here and pretend to be some some big star.
I'm really just starting out and trying to sort of
navigate how to do this. But yeah, when I was
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in grade twelve, I did West Side Story, which is
I'm sure you're familiar with, and played Tony. So it's like,
so I was the lead in the in the in
the show, and I went to a school that I
was very fortunate had like pretty massive budgets comparatively for
these productions, and so we had like professional actors kind
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of in the mix, and we had like a fully
professional crew, and and everything was done really to the
high level of professionalism. So it was a great learning experience,
and it was before I could really understand how to
authentically tap into a character without drawing on my own.
(11:13):
Like as an actor, it's obviously important to have life
experience that you can draw on and everybody has different
ways of doing things. But there was one particular show
where I really honed in on a personal life experience
that essentially sent me into and I had never had
a panic attack in my life, and I was kind
(11:33):
of out there on stage and like the it was.
It was a scene after like a friend of mine,
after Riff dies and what he's like, He's sitting there
talking to Doc in like at the back of the shop,
and I like was in a real panic attack, self
inflicted on my own experience, and then I was on
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stage and trying to portray that through the lens of
a character, but I was a very real, visceral reaction.
And so that was a huge mistake. Since learned how
to better sort of compartmentalize and sort of you know,
produce an outcome that is authentic to the character, not
necessarily a continuation of my own life. But that was
(12:17):
sort of, yeah, a scary learning moment.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Oh, I can't even imagine. I've had borderline panic attacks
and they are never fun. You don't see them coming,
and then trying you're the whole time it's happening, You're saying,
can this just be over? Can this just be over?
And it feels like it lasts for a lifetime. It
is terrifying, It really is, so I feel for you.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
It's even worse in fun of three hundred people.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Oh, I know that would be that would be mortifying
for sure. Well, every production has its own personality. How
do you adapt to working with different directors and cast?
And I know you said this was like your first
big film project, but in the time that you've been
acting and having those experiences, what how have you adapted?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Well? I think the number one thing is I try
and make people laugh in between takes. I just I
just want people to have fun, and like, I want
to have fun. And I know that if I'm having fun,
I'm gonna do my best work. And so, like, I've
been lucky enough every set I've worked on so far,
for the most part, I've felt like by day two,
I can be myself and kind of just you know,
(13:27):
be on the fly, like riffing what I'm feeling between takes.
And this was a great example of that. Like, I
had a lot of fun on this set. Andrew and Brigitte,
who produced and wrote the movie, were you know, just
they're just great people. And I was just kind of
like having fun and making my myself just kind of
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have a good time as much as I could, just
trying to be authentically me and then bring that into
the character as well. But yeah, like I've definitely dealt
with really inexperienced directors before. Like Andrews are an experienced director,
I've dealt with really inexperienced directors before that are like
fresh film school kind of directors. And they obviously their
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hearts in the right place, their passions in the right place,
but they don't necessarily know how to talk to actors.
And that is a real skill, and you have and
and and it's something that it takes a lot of
directors time to to to learn. And I think the
best directors have been on both sides of the camera,
and Andrew has and so anyways, I just say, like
(14:32):
the number one thing when I'm trying to adapt to
working with different people is just finding like what makes
us both laugh, what makes us both interested, And then
generally speaking, I find most directors build their team around
them and who they want. Like ultimately, when you're making
a movie, they're surrounding yourself with people you want to
be around. You know, they're talented too. But you've got
to spend a month to three months working with these
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people every day for twelve hours to day. So you know,
ultimately it kind of stems out from that.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
The director exactly exactly, and he's the one in charge,
and you better pay attention day he says or she says.
You know, that's what makes the movie. They have that
experience and being behind the camera and such. And speaking
of that, you I saw that you did on What
(15:19):
About You? It was a short you were assistant camera.
What did you learn from that? Uh?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah, when I was in I was just like in
drama school. I've done like obviously like made little films
here and there, and I have a camera and I
love to just like set set a camera up and
write a scene and do just like sketch comedy with
my friends or do or do like small sort of
(15:46):
docu like docu drama stuff, documentary stuff. And yeah, like
I think just being in film school, I learned kind
of like all not with extreme you know talent. I'll
leave the assistant camera up to the real assistant cameras
out there. But yeah, you know, I learned how to
sort of pull focus and you know, swap a lens
(16:08):
out and you know, set a camera up and get
my settings right. And yeah, there's there's a lot of
like little technical things I've picked up and so now
and I want to set you know, I am. I
feel like I'm proud to say that I'm the actor
that knows what camera we're shooting on and what lens
we're shooting on, and you know, I know what the
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frame is going to look like based on what lens
we're shooting on. And you know that's not necessarily like
you know, there's a lot of actors out there that
would say, oh, I've never cared about that. I only
care because I just find it interesting. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I mean there's so many facets to this industry that
you're in because there's so many things you can do,
you know, front of the camera, behind the camera, writing, directing.
I mean, it's it's just multifaceted. I mean, it can
really make you a well rounded performer and you know,
industry kind of store if you will. Have you ever
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thought about.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Writing or doing some of that moving forward?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Absolutely. I'm actually writing a film right now and it's
it's my first like feature that I'm writing, and I
write it, I'm a songwriter primarily, so I feel like
a lot of my writing interview goes into songwriting. I
just released an EP on Friday. I released my first
ever EP. It's called The More Time EP. It's on
(17:31):
Spotify or Apple Music where we get your music, and
so like for my life experience, I'd say it's primarily
like translated into my music, but my sort of fantastical
imagination mind side of things I've I've always sort of
had script ideas or like, you know, experiences that I
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necessarily haven't lived, but I have seen other people experience.
Those are the things I kind of put on the
shelf and pull down and I'm thinking, I want to
write a little script about this, and so yeah, it's
it's right right now is really the time that I'm
starting to explore that for the like, you know, and
really actually put pen to paper for the first time,
not just say I'm going to so.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah, wow, well we look forward to that. And congratulations
on your album, on your EP, I mean that's awesome.
You are extremely talented, and I think if you go
do some tap dancing across the floor or something, you're
going to be a triple thread.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
As they say, Oh god, you don't want to see
the dance pan. Let me tell you you don't want
to know these arms, these arms and legs. They're a
little too lanky, they're a little too uncoordinated. It's not
a good.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Say well, let's do goodbye on that one.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Yeah, exactly. That's why I played Tony. It's because he's
the only guy that doesn't dance to the show. Oh really,
anybody else? Everybody else has to dance.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Well, you know, I think you could get away with
learning a few steps here and there if it was
for a movie. So you know, if offered a dramatic
role or a lighter project, which one do you think
you would choose and enjoy more? And why.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Dramatic role or a lighter project? Okay, kind of call
that answer. I always think it's the director that matters.
I'm always going to want to be motivated to work
with the director that you know, interests me more. I think, like,
I love comedy, I love big comedy, like I love
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doing ridiculous stuff. I love moving funny. So sure I'll
say I'll say something that's lighter and funny, But there's
I do have like an urge to do a really
gritty character. I'd say, I will say this, the stuff
that I'm writing is funny. It's more comedy rom com lane.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
That's my number one nice.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, definitely. Well, speaking of acting and your career and
this awesome movie that we are going to get to
see very soon on Great American Family, But what can
you tell us about your character and a little bit
about the movie without giving too much away.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Well, I play Lucas fox Bro. He's just a very
sort of down to earth, unassuming, kind hearted young man,
and I think Luke is a lot like myself. I
grew up in a pretty small town in Canada, and
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I think like, had I not gone, I worked at
a golf course in high school and I just really
like took a lot of pride in the course that
I worked out and spent almost all my time there
and worked under the owner kind of made it as
good as I could. And I, yeah, I feel like
if I hadn't left my small town to pursue acting,
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I would have really enjoyed a life kind of just
taking care of something and feeling good about, you know,
the town that I lived in. And that's kind of
who Luke is. You know, he's looking after his family
in and takes great pride in it. And that's something
that you know, I can definitely appreciate and relate to.
And then the movie, without giving too much away, is
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about Princess Charlotte flying or basically escaping or not escaping
what's the word I'm looking for, Like she's fleeing, we'll
call it. Well, no, because she's not in danger. She's
she's just trying to have a thrill. I don't know,
I've got to frame this better. She's not escaping or fleeing.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
He's on an adventure.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
She's on an adventure. There you go, There you go.
She's on an adventure. She's taking an adventure across the
pond from Morovia, which and we would assumes somewhere in Europe.
And anyway, she comes over and she enters a baking competition,
and she's just kind of trying to discover her own
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self without people assuming they know everything about her because
she's famous and so anyways, Luke obviously has no idea
who she is, nor does he really care. I think
even if he knew that she was a princess, I
don't think he would really mind it. I don't think
he's the kind of person that is that particularly interested
in titles her status. But anyways, they just kind of
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strike up a friendship and then I think that sort
of starts to lead to something a little more maybe.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
And yeah, yeah, we are definitely looking forward to the movie.
We've been seeing the previews and it just looks like
it's going to be a really great film, no doubt
about it. One thing I wanted to ask you that
you mentioned just a moment ago, you said you worked
on a golf course in high school. Did you ever
think about pursuing a career as a golfer professional golfer.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Oh my gosh, I wish I wasn't good enough. I
did golf a lot. I still golf a lot. In fact,
I just got off the phone with my mom because
I told her I just signed up for a golf
league here in LA like literally twenty minutes ago. I
wish I could have been a professional golfer. But I
did teach golf for a little while, and I definitely
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it's something that I'd like to get back into playing
more golf.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Well, I'm just gonna go ahead and tell you I'm
a huge PGA golf NERD I love to watch the events,
and you look so much like Scottie Scheffler. It is crazy.
Has anyone ever told you that?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
No, that's funny, it's really Hey, will number one, I'll
take it right. I wish my bank account looked like his.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
I mean yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Mean he's over one hundred million for this year alone.
I think at some point last I heard it was
like ninety one million. I'm like, the dude is twenty
five years old or twenty seven or whatever.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Yeah, it's like, who what?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
It's crazy?
Speaker 5 (24:01):
But you know, in you're world number one?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
What do you do? Right?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
He's doing well. I'm excited to see.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I don't know if he'll take down Tiger, but he's
he's doing pretty.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Well well tracking, he's tracking tracking.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
You're right, yeah, What's who else do you like to watch?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I like Rory, Let's see, there's so many who how
do you not like them? I mean they're also personal
and but I like Scottie of course.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
You know, even though some.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Of the guys went to live. I was a big
John rom fan before before yeah, I still am. I
mean I love to see him come back and play
the majors and stuff. Bryson has kind of become quite
the character, but he's he's entertaining to say.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
The least is.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Have you have you? Have you watched Full Swing?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I have?
Speaker 5 (24:54):
And I loved it. I loved it.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Those guys were great and the whole bit was Scottie
being in jail getting hauled off to jail. I was like, oh, yeah,
I don't know who wrote that movie, but that was
classic to put that in there. So yeah, it was.
It was really good, very very good.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Well, I'm sorry I can't join in on that conversation
because I don't watch golf.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
That's okay.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I'm a hockey fan, so ok you me too.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I'm a hockey fan too, pam, Okay, cool. The black
Hawks must be starting the season up this week.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I believe that they are. I'll have to chuck with
my husband because that's like probably the only thing that
we'll watch together because it's like his stuff and I
like my stuff. So and they don't mesh. You know.
But when you're not acting, how do you recharge playing
golf or what do you have other stuff you do?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I'm a runner, I'm a golfer. I what else do
I do? I have a dog that I go hiking
with Nila, I go camping. I like in California. We've
got a lot of great national parks. So go up
to Big ser Yosemite. In Canada. When I'm back home,
I'll go to Muskoka, go up to some of the
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different rivers up there, go canoeing, camping. Yeah, just like
to be in nature. Really, that's ultimately.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
What I like to do, to reach all great ways
to reach ours. Just get out in nature and just
forget everything else. You know, absolutely well, caw. Before we
wrap up, we always like to play a fun little
five question lightning round. It's all Christmas because this is
a Christmas podcast. I don't no wrong answers, so it's
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it's pretty fine. So the first question is fake tree
or real tree?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Real tree?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Okay? Matching ornaments or mix and match?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Mix and match?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
So do you prefer snow for Christmas? Or do you
like beach weather at Christmas time?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Know?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, Christmas in July through December or only in December.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
July through December. What does that mean? I don't even
know if I'm familiar with that.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Well, you know, there's this thing where Christmas in July
is a big thing here in the States and you know,
the United States, we commercialize everything, you mean, like on
that night. Yeah, well, you know, and some people get
in the mo they start getting the Christmas spirit slowly
in July and it kind of builds all the way
to December. There. I'm kind of one of those.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
So okay, the opposite I'm going to do.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
I'm going to do a third option there, Dawn. I
am Christmas in October until like maybe January, like really
like the first week of January normally.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
When I take that, that that's perfect, perfect, I told you, because.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
We have Canadian Thanksgiving in October. Yeah, I'd say it's
like it's like second week of October we do Thanksgiving
and then like I'm pretty much in the christ.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Spirit, right Oh yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
And last, but not least, one thing you have to
find and you were stocking.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Oh my gosh. Well the boring answer is toothpaste. But uh,
the real answer. I love those those chocolate bunnies, those
link chocolate bunnies.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Oh yeah, yeah, very well.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Love when Santa drops those off. Those are a classic
on Christmas Morning with the bow around their neck.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Yes, okay, I'm going there. I mean we've interviewed I
don't even know how many people at this point, one
hundred people are more for this show, and there has
been not one single person that mentioned toothpaste.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
So on there, because it's just like, I don't know,
Santa knows, you gotta have toothpaste. Yeah, that's right. I
don't even know the last time I bought toothpaste, dam
I don't. I always have it, but I don't remember
ever buying it.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
So I think you just on the lightning round.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Everybody we've ever interviewed, like you won the lighting around,
you broke the you're breaking the internet, right, I mean,
so what can we say?
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Thank you so much for playing along. We appreciate that
that was a.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Lot of fun, and we enjoyed speaking with you so much.
I can't even tell you, and we we know you're
just getting started, but we both can see that you
have a beautiful future ahead of you and you'll be
very successful at whatever you do, and we'd love to
have you back sometime in the future as well.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Thanks Pam, Thanks don really nice.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Thank you so much, thank you, thank you, thank you
so much for tuning in to our latest episode of
Christmas Movie Spotlight. Don't forget. You can find her our
podcast on iHeartRadio, Spotify, iTunes, Spreaker, and more. Just search
(29:57):
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Speaker 6 (30:01):
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merry and we'll see you again real soon
Hello and welcome to the special edition of Christmas Movie Spotlight.
I'm your host, Don Mac and I'm here with my friend,
my colleague, and my co host Pam. Hey, Pam, how
are you.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I'm doing good, my fellow, best friend, my co host,
my colleague. Yeah, I guess I'm good.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I'm still checking along. Excited that we're kind of now
the holiday season is starting to feel like the holiday season.
I think I mentioned before that the weather here is
still cooperating, is still making it feel seasonal. So that's
probably one of the reasons why I'm more excited than
normal this early, because the weather is, you know, it's
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it's fit for the season, so it's not too We've
had many false eases where it was so hot you
thought you were still in summer. Indian summer. I think
it is what they call it. But anyway, yes, I'm
here for it. I'm enjoying it. So doing good, doing good.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well, you know me, I'm a walker for my exercise,
and I'm sorry, I just do not like the forty
nine degree weather to go walk, and I really love
the Indian summer back.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Well, yeah, that that is a little too chilly and
that's a little rough on the bones when you're out
walking too. Yes, even though you're walking and you know,
energizing yourself and circulating, you know, keeping your blood flow going,
but still it's still cold.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
No matter how you.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Sice it, what it is is that it's hard to
get yourself motivated to go outside to do it. But
once you're outside, you're fine, because you know, I walk
in winter in the snow. She yelled at me all
the time. It's a pleasure out there. What are you doing?
Or there's a tornado coming? Get back in the house,
I'm telling you, she I do.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I do. But you know, I'm just in the South,
and so things here are so different. It would be
culture shock for you if you ever came in a South.
It's so different from where you live. So so, of course,
when you're telling me you're out walking and you're in
a suburb of Chicago, I'm like, why are you not walking?
And I hear all this traffic behind. Oh, it's just
two streets over. I'm like, no, it's not.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I don't know what do I know?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
She's she's a dared devil, y'all.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I don't know what to say, you know, what I'm
gonna have to do one of these days a daredevil
so funny.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I wouldn't walk out there where you live. I just
wouldn't do it. I'm too much of a scaredy cat.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I know, I know, but one day would I have
to do? And I didn't think about it until just now.
You know, we always talk over the phone. So what
I should do is we should do a video call
one day and I will show you the one busy
street that I walked down for three minute time. You
know that.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I'm okay, we have a failing. You'll just pick a
different route just to make me feel good.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
On the phone when you're walking to know.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
That exactly, you would know, So why would I?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Like, are you downtown Chicago? I mean, what are you doing?
Their buses are gonna hit you? I mean, good lord,
we have fun like that all the time. So anyway, well,
I'm telling you I'm really excited about today's show because
I so enjoyed speaking to our guest, Cal Buckley. And
(03:41):
he is kind of a newbie in the world of
acting and movies, and he is young. I mean, he's
just like out of college and he's already got a
leading role in a movie on Great American Family that's
gonna be airing soon. I mean, this guy was so
much fun to talk to. He he even for you
(04:02):
PGA fans out there, you Golfer fans. He looks like
Scottie Scheffler. He looks like Scotti Scheffler. And he loves
to go. So there's that. That's all I'm gonna say
about cal Buckley.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
But other than I can't.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well that's right, but he but he's starting in in
the movie coming up on a Great American Family, and
we just had a great time talking with him. He's
he's got a long career.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Ahead of him, absolutely, and to get the lead physician
in a movie just coming out of college really says
a lot about him. You know, the man is absolutely talented,
and he's very good looking because you know, Don says
he looks like this Scotty and she said he's good looking.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
So yeah that we don't normally phone over our guests
like that, but you know, right right, so there, you
know what can we say.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Right, I mean, we're just stating facts. I'm glad that's
radio because.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
My face is like five sheetes of red right now.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
But that's okay, it's okay. Let me speak to every
one of our guests is good looking, and that is true,
no matter if it's a woman or a man. You know,
we say to each other, Oh, she's so pretty or
he's so handsome. So you know, it's not anything new.
But be sure to catch Cal Buckley in the holiday
(05:28):
movie on Great American Family October twenty fifth, and it's
called a Royal Icing Christmas. And you know me with
those Royal movies, those are one of my favorites. I'll
definitely be watching.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, and I was not as big of a fan
of Royal movies, but they've really grant on me. I
love the whole Royal Christmas thing that it just goes
together so perfectly well, and we are so excited and
honored to bring you our interview now with Cal Buckley.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Enjoy the show.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Hi, this is Cal Buckley and you're with Pam and Don.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Hi Carol, welcome to Christmas Movie Spotlight.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
How you doing today, I'm great. Thank you so much
for having me.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Pam, Oh, you're very welcome, and I am so happy,
and I know Don is so happy to speak with
you today. We know how busy you guys are all
the time with your different projects, so we won't keep
you very long, but we did want to find out
some things about you. How did you get started in acting?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I started, like most people in high school, just got
really lucky to have a good theater teacher. And so
I'm from a small town north of Toronto and Canada,
and yeah, I joined a play at Guys and Dolls
and kind of just kept doing it every year, went
back and got to work with some really incredible professionals
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in high school. And then I moved to Los Angeles
when I was eighteen, and I studied acting at the
American Academy Dramatic Arts and have just continued to kind
of hone my craft and and you know, it's obviously
something that I can't seem to stop doing. So that's
how I got started.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, acting, as in any profession that you want to
be really good at, it's a grind.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
It's always you're.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Learning, you're working, you know, and when you're not working,
you're learning in between and doing everything you can. So
have you received any advice from other actors or someone
involved in the industry that helped you with your career?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
So many I would say, like my number one mentor
was my high school drama teacher. And he's directed a
lot of big films, like most recently he directed Bruce
Dern in Northbound, which is coming out next year, like
Academy Award nominee two times over Bruce Dern, And he's
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worked on some really big projects that he's you know,
directed and written himself. His name's William Schooler, And so
he came to me. Well, when I was in fourteen,
I sat in his class. It was my first time
ever in a drama class, and I did it because
I thought it'd be an easy grade. And he said,
I will never tell any one of you to be
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an actor. He was like, I think it is. It
is the worst like thing to do because I have
seen so many people do it and it is so
hard and it is like the hardest route that you
can put yourself on. And he said, but if you
come to me and you tell me that you're going
to be an actor, no matter what I have to
say about it, then maybe I'll help you. So four
years go by and I'm starting to, like, you know,
(08:38):
explore more what I want to do as I graduate
high school, and he's I said him. I said, Will,
I'm going to be an actor. I don't care what
you think. If you're able, would love to get some advice.
And so he kind of set me on a path
to meeting the right teachers at the Academy that we're
able to really sort of put my finger on the
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pulse of what the industy street was moving like today,
because this industry has really changed a lot, like it
changes honestly month to month, and so I had some
really like Will was the first person to really put
me on that path. But at the Academy, I had
some really incredible teachers like Adam Chambers and Rob Hahn,
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Amir Krangi, all of them working actors who have just
really navigated twenty thirty forty year careers in an industry
that's changing day to day. And so yeah, it's been
very grateful to have good mentorship.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
What I think he was doing is he was weeding
out the ones that didn't really have it in their blood.
And you obviously got it in your blood to be
an actor.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I hope.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
So yeah, well, I think so well, even with the
four years of being in plays and stuff like that
in high school or even on a killer film set.
Is there a moment in time that really challenged you
or surprised you as a performer.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, I I okay, So when I was like, I've
been doing theater mostly, like, this is my first real
full length film. I'm only twenty one. I just graduated
acting school last year, So I'm not going to come
on here and pretend to be some some big star.
I'm really just starting out and trying to sort of
navigate how to do this. But yeah, when I was
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in grade twelve, I did West Side Story, which is
I'm sure you're familiar with, and played Tony. So it's like,
so I was the lead in the in the in
the show, and I went to a school that I
was very fortunate had like pretty massive budgets comparatively for
these productions, and so we had like professional actors kind
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of in the mix, and we had like a fully
professional crew, and and everything was done really to the
high level of professionalism. So it was a great learning experience,
and it was before I could really understand how to
authentically tap into a character without drawing on my own.
(11:13):
Like as an actor, it's obviously important to have life
experience that you can draw on and everybody has different
ways of doing things. But there was one particular show
where I really honed in on a personal life experience
that essentially sent me into and I had never had
a panic attack in my life, and I was kind
(11:33):
of out there on stage and like the it was.
It was a scene after like a friend of mine,
after Riff dies and what he's like, He's sitting there
talking to Doc in like at the back of the shop,
and I like was in a real panic attack, self
inflicted on my own experience, and then I was on
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stage and trying to portray that through the lens of
a character, but I was a very real, visceral reaction.
And so that was a huge mistake. Since learned how
to better sort of compartmentalize and sort of you know,
produce an outcome that is authentic to the character, not
necessarily a continuation of my own life. But that was
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sort of, yeah, a scary learning moment.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Oh, I can't even imagine. I've had borderline panic attacks
and they are never fun. You don't see them coming,
and then trying you're the whole time it's happening, You're saying,
can this just be over? Can this just be over?
And it feels like it lasts for a lifetime. It
is terrifying, It really is, so I feel for you.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
It's even worse in fun of three hundred people.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Oh, I know that would be that would be mortifying
for sure. Well, every production has its own personality. How
do you adapt to working with different directors and cast?
And I know you said this was like your first
big film project, but in the time that you've been
acting and having those experiences, what how have you adapted?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Well? I think the number one thing is I try
and make people laugh in between takes. I just I
just want people to have fun, and like, I want
to have fun. And I know that if I'm having fun,
I'm gonna do my best work. And so, like, I've
been lucky enough every set I've worked on so far,
for the most part, I've felt like by day two,
I can be myself and kind of just you know,
(13:27):
be on the fly, like riffing what I'm feeling between takes.
And this was a great example of that. Like, I
had a lot of fun on this set. Andrew and Brigitte,
who produced and wrote the movie, were you know, just
they're just great people. And I was just kind of
like having fun and making my myself just kind of
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have a good time as much as I could, just
trying to be authentically me and then bring that into
the character as well. But yeah, like I've definitely dealt
with really inexperienced directors before. Like Andrews are an experienced director,
I've dealt with really inexperienced directors before that are like
fresh film school kind of directors. And they obviously their
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hearts in the right place, their passions in the right place,
but they don't necessarily know how to talk to actors.
And that is a real skill, and you have and
and and it's something that it takes a lot of
directors time to to to learn. And I think the
best directors have been on both sides of the camera,
and Andrew has and so anyways, I just say, like
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the number one thing when I'm trying to adapt to
working with different people is just finding like what makes
us both laugh, what makes us both interested, And then
generally speaking, I find most directors build their team around
them and who they want. Like ultimately, when you're making
a movie, they're surrounding yourself with people you want to
be around. You know, they're talented too. But you've got
to spend a month to three months working with these
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people every day for twelve hours to day. So you know,
ultimately it kind of stems out from that.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
The director exactly exactly, and he's the one in charge,
and you better pay attention day he says or she says.
You know, that's what makes the movie. They have that
experience and being behind the camera and such. And speaking
of that, you I saw that you did on What
(15:19):
About You? It was a short you were assistant camera.
What did you learn from that? Uh?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah, when I was in I was just like in
drama school. I've done like obviously like made little films
here and there, and I have a camera and I
love to just like set set a camera up and
write a scene and do just like sketch comedy with
my friends or do or do like small sort of
(15:46):
docu like docu drama stuff, documentary stuff. And yeah, like
I think just being in film school, I learned kind
of like all not with extreme you know talent. I'll
leave the assistant camera up to the real assistant cameras
out there. But yeah, you know, I learned how to
sort of pull focus and you know, swap a lens
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out and you know, set a camera up and get
my settings right. And yeah, there's there's a lot of
like little technical things I've picked up and so now
and I want to set you know, I am. I
feel like I'm proud to say that I'm the actor
that knows what camera we're shooting on and what lens
we're shooting on, and you know, I know what the
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frame is going to look like based on what lens
we're shooting on. And you know that's not necessarily like
you know, there's a lot of actors out there that
would say, oh, I've never cared about that. I only
care because I just find it interesting. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I mean there's so many facets to this industry that
you're in because there's so many things you can do,
you know, front of the camera, behind the camera, writing, directing.
I mean, it's it's just multifaceted. I mean, it can
really make you a well rounded performer and you know,
industry kind of store if you will. Have you ever
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thought about.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Writing or doing some of that moving forward?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Absolutely. I'm actually writing a film right now and it's
it's my first like feature that I'm writing, and I
write it, I'm a songwriter primarily, so I feel like
a lot of my writing interview goes into songwriting. I
just released an EP on Friday. I released my first
ever EP. It's called The More Time EP. It's on
(17:31):
Spotify or Apple Music where we get your music, and
so like for my life experience, I'd say it's primarily
like translated into my music, but my sort of fantastical
imagination mind side of things I've I've always sort of
had script ideas or like, you know, experiences that I
(17:52):
necessarily haven't lived, but I have seen other people experience.
Those are the things I kind of put on the
shelf and pull down and I'm thinking, I want to
write a little script about this, and so yeah, it's
it's right right now is really the time that I'm
starting to explore that for the like, you know, and
really actually put pen to paper for the first time,
not just say I'm going to so.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah, wow, well we look forward to that. And congratulations
on your album, on your EP, I mean that's awesome.
You are extremely talented, and I think if you go
do some tap dancing across the floor or something, you're
going to be a triple thread.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
As they say, Oh god, you don't want to see
the dance pan. Let me tell you you don't want
to know these arms, these arms and legs. They're a
little too lanky, they're a little too uncoordinated. It's not
a good.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Say well, let's do goodbye on that one.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Yeah, exactly. That's why I played Tony. It's because he's
the only guy that doesn't dance to the show. Oh really,
anybody else? Everybody else has to dance.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Well, you know, I think you could get away with
learning a few steps here and there if it was
for a movie. So you know, if offered a dramatic
role or a lighter project, which one do you think
you would choose and enjoy more? And why.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Dramatic role or a lighter project? Okay, kind of call
that answer. I always think it's the director that matters.
I'm always going to want to be motivated to work
with the director that you know, interests me more. I think, like,
I love comedy, I love big comedy, like I love
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doing ridiculous stuff. I love moving funny. So sure I'll
say I'll say something that's lighter and funny, But there's
I do have like an urge to do a really
gritty character. I'd say, I will say this, the stuff
that I'm writing is funny. It's more comedy rom com lane.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
That's my number one nice.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, definitely. Well, speaking of acting and your career and
this awesome movie that we are going to get to
see very soon on Great American Family, But what can
you tell us about your character and a little bit
about the movie without giving too much away.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Well, I play Lucas fox Bro. He's just a very
sort of down to earth, unassuming, kind hearted young man,
and I think Luke is a lot like myself. I
grew up in a pretty small town in Canada, and
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I think like, had I not gone, I worked at
a golf course in high school and I just really
like took a lot of pride in the course that
I worked out and spent almost all my time there
and worked under the owner kind of made it as
good as I could. And I, yeah, I feel like
if I hadn't left my small town to pursue acting,
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I would have really enjoyed a life kind of just
taking care of something and feeling good about, you know,
the town that I lived in. And that's kind of
who Luke is. You know, he's looking after his family
in and takes great pride in it. And that's something
that you know, I can definitely appreciate and relate to.
And then the movie, without giving too much away, is
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about Princess Charlotte flying or basically escaping or not escaping
what's the word I'm looking for, Like she's fleeing, we'll
call it. Well, no, because she's not in danger. She's
she's just trying to have a thrill. I don't know,
I've got to frame this better. She's not escaping or fleeing.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
He's on an adventure.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
She's on an adventure. There you go, There you go.
She's on an adventure. She's taking an adventure across the
pond from Morovia, which and we would assumes somewhere in Europe.
And anyway, she comes over and she enters a baking competition,
and she's just kind of trying to discover her own
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self without people assuming they know everything about her because
she's famous and so anyways, Luke obviously has no idea
who she is, nor does he really care. I think
even if he knew that she was a princess, I
don't think he would really mind it. I don't think
he's the kind of person that is that particularly interested
in titles her status. But anyways, they just kind of
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strike up a friendship and then I think that sort
of starts to lead to something a little more maybe.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
And yeah, yeah, we are definitely looking forward to the movie.
We've been seeing the previews and it just looks like
it's going to be a really great film, no doubt
about it. One thing I wanted to ask you that
you mentioned just a moment ago, you said you worked
on a golf course in high school. Did you ever
think about pursuing a career as a golfer professional golfer.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Oh my gosh, I wish I wasn't good enough. I
did golf a lot. I still golf a lot. In fact,
I just got off the phone with my mom because
I told her I just signed up for a golf
league here in LA like literally twenty minutes ago. I
wish I could have been a professional golfer. But I
did teach golf for a little while, and I definitely
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it's something that I'd like to get back into playing
more golf.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Well, I'm just gonna go ahead and tell you I'm
a huge PGA golf NERD I love to watch the events,
and you look so much like Scottie Scheffler. It is crazy.
Has anyone ever told you that?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
No, that's funny, it's really Hey, will number one, I'll
take it right. I wish my bank account looked like his.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
I mean yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Mean he's over one hundred million for this year alone.
I think at some point last I heard it was
like ninety one million. I'm like, the dude is twenty
five years old or twenty seven or whatever.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Yeah, it's like, who what?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
It's crazy?
Speaker 5 (24:01):
But you know, in you're world number one?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
What do you do? Right?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
He's doing well. I'm excited to see.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I don't know if he'll take down Tiger, but he's
he's doing pretty.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Well well tracking, he's tracking tracking.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
You're right, yeah, What's who else do you like to watch?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I like Rory, Let's see, there's so many who how
do you not like them? I mean they're also personal
and but I like Scottie of course.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
You know, even though some.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Of the guys went to live. I was a big
John rom fan before before yeah, I still am. I
mean I love to see him come back and play
the majors and stuff. Bryson has kind of become quite
the character, but he's he's entertaining to say.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
The least is.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Have you have you? Have you watched Full Swing?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I have?
Speaker 5 (24:54):
And I loved it. I loved it.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Those guys were great and the whole bit was Scottie
being in jail getting hauled off to jail. I was like, oh, yeah,
I don't know who wrote that movie, but that was
classic to put that in there. So yeah, it was.
It was really good, very very good.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Well, I'm sorry I can't join in on that conversation
because I don't watch golf.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
That's okay.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I'm a hockey fan, so ok you me too.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I'm a hockey fan too, pam, Okay, cool. The black
Hawks must be starting the season up this week.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I believe that they are. I'll have to chuck with
my husband because that's like probably the only thing that
we'll watch together because it's like his stuff and I
like my stuff. So and they don't mesh. You know.
But when you're not acting, how do you recharge playing
golf or what do you have other stuff you do?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I'm a runner, I'm a golfer. I what else do
I do? I have a dog that I go hiking
with Nila, I go camping. I like in California. We've
got a lot of great national parks. So go up
to Big ser Yosemite. In Canada. When I'm back home,
I'll go to Muskoka, go up to some of the
(26:13):
different rivers up there, go canoeing, camping. Yeah, just like
to be in nature. Really, that's ultimately.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
What I like to do, to reach all great ways
to reach ours. Just get out in nature and just
forget everything else. You know, absolutely well, caw. Before we
wrap up, we always like to play a fun little
five question lightning round. It's all Christmas because this is
a Christmas podcast. I don't no wrong answers, so it's
(26:42):
it's pretty fine. So the first question is fake tree
or real tree?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Real tree?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Okay? Matching ornaments or mix and match?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Mix and match?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
So do you prefer snow for Christmas? Or do you
like beach weather at Christmas time?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Know?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, Christmas in July through December or only in December.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
July through December. What does that mean? I don't even
know if I'm familiar with that.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Well, you know, there's this thing where Christmas in July
is a big thing here in the States and you know,
the United States, we commercialize everything, you mean, like on
that night. Yeah, well, you know, and some people get
in the mo they start getting the Christmas spirit slowly
in July and it kind of builds all the way
to December. There. I'm kind of one of those.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
So okay, the opposite I'm going to do.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
I'm going to do a third option there, Dawn. I
am Christmas in October until like maybe January, like really
like the first week of January normally.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
When I take that, that that's perfect, perfect, I told you, because.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
We have Canadian Thanksgiving in October. Yeah, I'd say it's
like it's like second week of October we do Thanksgiving
and then like I'm pretty much in the christ.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Spirit, right Oh yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
And last, but not least, one thing you have to
find and you were stocking.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Oh my gosh. Well the boring answer is toothpaste. But uh,
the real answer. I love those those chocolate bunnies, those
link chocolate bunnies.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Oh yeah, yeah, very well.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Love when Santa drops those off. Those are a classic
on Christmas Morning with the bow around their neck.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Yes, okay, I'm going there. I mean we've interviewed I
don't even know how many people at this point, one
hundred people are more for this show, and there has
been not one single person that mentioned toothpaste.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
So on there, because it's just like, I don't know,
Santa knows, you gotta have toothpaste. Yeah, that's right. I
don't even know the last time I bought toothpaste, dam
I don't. I always have it, but I don't remember
ever buying it.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
So I think you just on the lightning round.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Everybody we've ever interviewed, like you won the lighting around,
you broke the you're breaking the internet, right, I mean,
so what can we say?
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Thank you so much for playing along. We appreciate that
that was a.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Lot of fun, and we enjoyed speaking with you so much.
I can't even tell you, and we we know you're
just getting started, but we both can see that you
have a beautiful future ahead of you and you'll be
very successful at whatever you do, and we'd love to
have you back sometime in the future as well.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Thanks Pam, Thanks don really nice.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Thank you so much, thank you, thank you, thank you
so much for tuning in to our latest episode of
Christmas Movie Spotlight. Don't forget. You can find her our
podcast on iHeartRadio, Spotify, iTunes, Spreaker, and more. Just search
(29:57):
Christmas Movie Spotlight spelled in you v i e s.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
For even more, Visit us online at christmasmoviespotlight dot com.
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m U v i e s. Until next time, stay
merry and we'll see you again real soon
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