Celebrities don’t want rosy cheeks, a white beard or a large belly (stuffed with jelly) to look like Santa Claus. Some stars have attempted their hand at dressing up as jolly outdated Saint Nick for the vacation season, while others have carried out so for a laugh or for roles.

Tim Allen, for one, famously portrayed Santa in 1994’s The Santa Clause, 2002’s The Santa Clause 2 and 2006’s The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause. Most lately, the actor starred within the Disney+ show The Santa Clauses, which aired in 2022.

In 2017, the actor mirrored on the three-and-a-half hours it took to grow to be into the nature with a fats go well with and make-up.

“I’ve since then admired Eddie Murphy and Jim Carrey, of course — anyone who’s completed those fat suits, there’s no method to get around how uncomfortable that is,” Allen informed 20/20, noting that he may no longer be within the swimsuit for longer than six hours on account of a loss of air flow. “I don’t know the way these other guys did it.”

The dress led to other issues too. “The original coat we did for the first film was actual velvet. It had filigree everywhere it,” Allen defined. “It additionally had tiny little bells everywhere. … [We] didn’t really [know] how obnoxious it could be.”

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Allen had to redo a lot of the audio after filming as a result. “I ADRed [Automatic Dialog Replacement] most of that film because other folks [said], ‘What’s all that ringing?’ And it was me strolling,” he said.

Scroll through the gallery underneath to look stars rocking their takes on Santa’s suit:

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