![]() ![]() We improvised a lot, said some funny stuff, and cracked each other up. Also, Dax Shepard is one of my close friends, and it’s always fun to be around him ‘cause he’s a very funny guy. Everybody in that room were very nice people and good conversationalists. Basically, I’m bleeding out through the whole thing, but there were distractions. Did you have any particularly fun or funny moments on set, with any of them?ĭ’ONOFRIO: Improvising with the cast, inside the liquor store, was fun. This film has a pretty great cast, with Dax Shepard, Kurtwood Smith and Tim Allen. I just liked it because I saw, the way that it was written, that it could be something I could have fun with. They really let me expand on it and do all kinds of stuff. I thought I could bring some kind of weirdness to it. ![]() ![]() VINCENT D’ONOFRIO: With it being (writer) Ted Melfi’s, and I think he’s a really talented guy, and the introduction to David, the director, I thought that I could do something with the part. While there is no actual town of El Camino in Nevada, and promotional materials for the film are careful and clear about calling the town "fictitious," it's definitely a stand-in for the many small spots just off the highway scattered around the state.Collider: What made you want to do El Camino Christmas ? Empty streets and run-down motels instead of carolers and decked-out halls add to the anti-holiday vibe, as the five folks trapped in the store are about as free in their day-to-day lives before the lockdown. The setting of El Camino is about as far away from most people's ideal picture of the holiday season as you can get, with dust instead of snow, and strings of Christmas lights half-heartedly strung up on worn-down buildings in blinding sunlight. After a brief meeting ending with his dad slamming the door in his face, Grimes realizes he's a boozehound, and heads to the local liquor store suspecting he'll get another chance to talk with him there.ĭue to a series of bungles by local sheriffs, played by Dax Shepard and Vincent D'onofrio, the young man gets trapped along with his dad, the liquor store owner, a young mother and her son, and several others in what's mistakenly dubbed a hostage situation by a local reporter (played by Jessica Alba). The story follows a young man (played by Luke Grimes) coming to a dusty small town to meet the father he never met (played by Tim Allen). ![]() After the success of Melfi's Hidden Figures, nominated for Best Picture, the director had free reign to take on whatever project he wanted, and what he wanted to do was finally finish a project he'd started 10 years ago, after he bought a script from then-first time writer Wehner, and fill it with an all-star ensemble cast. Not quite, but the fictional town is a perfect backdrop for the movie's drama to play out. The characters and setting are integral to the anti-holiday feel of the film, but is El Camino a real place? Throw in a hostage situation and a holiday reunion, and you have an R-rated Christmas story for, well, some of the family. El Camino Christmas is a darkly comic look at what happens when miscommunications pile up in a small town where everyone's eager for the slightest distraction. Taking place in and named after the dry, sunbaked town of El Camino, Nevada, the latest movie from director Ted Melfi and co-writer Chris Wehner doesn't seem like much of a Christmas film, even though it's right there in the title. ![]()
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