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Home Sweet Home Aloneis the best kind of surprise: a franchise reboot thats actually really good.
We spoke to Delaney about starring in what might be the years funniest Christmas movie.
On a professional basis, Archie Yates was tremendous to work with.
Hes a wonderful kid with wonderful parents who were there with him on set.
But then, when they said action, he was a challenge that needed to be eliminated.
Do you seeHome Sweet Home Aloneas being about class warfare?Sure, yes.
It would slot comfortably into that.
Have your kids seen the movie yet?They have not seen it yet.
And one of them cannot wait.
This movie is not afraid to get into Looney Tuneslevel violence.
Your performance starts in a grounded place and gets bigger and bigger as it goes on.
How do you calibrate a comedy performance with a family/kid audience in mind?
Do you approach it differently than you would for adults?I personally really dont.
Because kids can smell bullshit incredibly well.
Its got to be really genuine.
None of the crazy noises or crazy faces that Jeff or Pam make in the film are exaggerated.
Its a bit like stand-up, where either people are going to laugh or theyre not.
Kids dont want to be kowtowed to or patronized.
Tell me about your stunt double.
Did you bond with him?
He was the same size as me.
His muscles were distributed differently about his body.
I never saw him naked.
He would be there whenever I did a stunt, and he would also do it.
They really tried to have us be on film doing as much as we could.
Amazingly, I cant even tell when its not me, because he did such a good job.
And Ellies stunt double, Atlin, was brilliant.
But I was shocked at the amount that they required us to personally do.
I was happy to do it and felt like a kid in a candy store.
Even on the page, that looked just disgusting.
And in fact it was!
That was one stunt they wouldnt let me near.
There is a creepy German doll thats kind of a centerpiece of the movie.
Because it is funny and creepy and has some nice moments toward the end.
Its like Adam Driver working opposite that scary puppet inAnnette.
This is yourAnnettemoment, your art-house doll.I wonder what my version of hiscentaur cologne adwill be.
I look forward to it.
Hes so funny, and I so enjoyed playing brothers with him.
Were both very tall.
Were both from New England.
We both have a lot of the same cultural touchstones.
And I really like him a lot.
So I could have handled more me and Tim in the movie.
Maybe that could be a spinoff.
Tim Simonss character calls Ellie Kempers character Pama-lama-ding-dong.
That nickname is maybe not exclusively but is famously anOffice-ism.
And Tims character is the sort of annoying guy who would quoteThe Officein that way.
But Ellie Kemper is inThe Office.
So doesThe Officeexist in this world?
The same solar system, but decidedly different worlds.
