{"id":26877,"date":"2022-12-09T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1752686"},"modified":"2022-12-09T12:57:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T11:57:29","slug":"this-is-christmas-stars-shot-the-festive-film-in-40-degree-heat","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/this-is-christmas-stars-shot-the-festive-film-in-40-degree-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Christmas stars shot the festive film in 40-degree heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Patrick Cremona\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 09 December 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>When you think of Christmas, 40-degree heat probably isn\u2019t the first thing that comes to mind \u2013 but it was something that the stars of the new film <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/movies\/this-is-christmas-cast\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">This is Christmas<\/a> had to deal with when they were shooting the project.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Potter star Alfred Enoch and The Maze Runner\u2019s Kaya Scoledario star in the festive romcom, and speaking exclusively to <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">RadioTimes.com<\/a> the pair revealed the less-than-ideal conditions in which they made the film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sucked!\u201d said Scoledario. \u201cThis is the most fun experience I\u2019ve ever had at work in my life \u2013 it\u2019s the best job I\u2019ve ever done \u2013 but that very first week was the 40-degree heatwave week, and I remember just thinking people are going to faint, how are we going to physically get through this?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think we figured it out, and in the end, we all have this beautiful glow in the movie that looks like Christmas magic and is really buckets of sweat! But it works for the movie, so I think that\u2019s good: a Christmas sheen.\u201d<\/p> <p>Enoch added that despite the summertime shoot, it always felt very festive on set \u2013 especially when they shot scenes in a pub that had been dressed up to look as Christmassy as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, the party was amazing,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen we sort of saw the set dressed for it, it looks fantastic. And you know, immediately that kind of stuff makes you go\u2026 you see a couple of Christmas decorations, it\u2019s amazing what it does to your mind. You go \u2018Oh, I know this, this is nice!&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scodelario added: \u201cWhenever we shot in the pub, that made me feel so Christmassy. Because it was that feeling when you go to the pub in winter, and you\u2019ve got your layers on and your coat and you sit down and you take everything off, and everything\u2019s lit by candlelight \u2013 and it\u2019s just really my favourite part of the Christmas period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that day that we shot it, it was the middle of the day in Islington in 40-degree heat, but it felt so magical.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"&quot;This\" is=\"\" christmas=\"\" official=\"\" trailer=\"\" sky=\"\" cinema=\"\" width=\"&quot;200&quot;\" height=\"&quot;113&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fFNteX1Jefo?feature=oembed&quot;\" frameborder=\"&quot;0&quot;\" allow=\"&quot;accelerometer;\" autoplay=\"\" clipboard-write=\"\" encrypted-media=\"\" gyroscope=\"\" picture-in-picture=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>\n<p>Enoch continued: \u201cWe\u2019re in this beautiful cosy little pub and you know, you forget 40 degrees. It was harder to forget it was 40 degrees when you\u2019re wearing a Christmas jumper and you\u2019re by an open fire, which was me on the first day of shooting \u2013 but that aside, it was pretty lovely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we had this lovely day where we got this big snow machine out and we just covered old Hemel High Street with fake snow. You see that and you go, \u2018It feels like the real deal.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking more generally about what drew her to starring in a the film, Scoledario explained: \u201cI\u2019d never thought about it before, but as soon as it came through, I did just think how cool would it be to say I\u2019m doing a Christmas film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spend so much of my career going, \u2018I need to do a really good kind of arthouse indie cinema theatre thing that no one will ever see, but it means something,\u2019 and it was quite nice to kind of go: \u2018Actually, I just I want to do a nice Christmas movie that people will watch with their families and smile through.\u2019 I mean, Lindsay Lohan is doing them, so it\u2019s obviously very cool!\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--aspect=\"\" style=\"&quot;padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> <picture><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" 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title=\"&quot;&quot;\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div><div class=\"&quot;caption-hold&quot;\"><figcaption class=\"&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;caption-copy&quot;\"><i class=\"&quot;icon-arrow\" icon-camera-circle=\"\"\/> Kaya Scodelario as Emma and Alfred Enoch as Adam in This is Christmas.<\/span><\/figcaption><span class=\"&quot;im-image-caption&quot;\"> <i>SEAC<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI remember Chris Foggin, our director, said something lovely,\u201d added Enoch. \u201cHe said, \u2018I just I want to make films that people like, that people can sit with their family and enjoy.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018You know what, there\u2019s a lot to be said for that.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not necessarily what I spend all of my time watching but I thought, for me at Christmas, sitting down and watching a film is a big part of 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That\u2019s something I always used to do as a kid with my parents. So hopefully we\u2019ve made something that people will enjoy watching this Christmas and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is Christmas is released on Sky Cinema and\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/streaming\/now-tv\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">NOW<\/a>\u00a0on Friday 9th December. 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