Leighton Meester & Robbie Amell Talk Making Each Other Laugh "Every Day" on 'EXmas' Set | THR News Video - video Dailymotion

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Leighton Meester and Robbie Amell play an ex-couple who unexpectedly end up celebrating Christmas together in the new holiday rom com, 'EXmas'. The pair spoke to The Hollywood Reporter all about working on the light-hearted Christmas film, including why they wanted to be a part of it.

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00:00This is the best movie I've ever done.

00:02It's the most fun I've ever had.

00:05Leighton Meester and Robbie Amell play an ex-couple

00:07who unexpectedly end up celebrating Christmas together

00:10in the new holiday rom-com, Xmas.

00:13You're kind of freaking out.

00:14You invited my ex-fiance to Christmas.

00:17You know, I really should go.

00:18You're not going anywhere.

00:19I have to get mom and dad to dump Allie.

00:21Otherwise, I'm going to be sharing my family forever.

00:23The pair spoke to The Hollywood Reporter

00:25all about working on the lighthearted Christmas film,

00:27including why they wanted to be a part of it.

00:30Honestly, when I read the script, I was like,

00:31oh, man, a Christmas movie in June.

00:34Let's see.

00:34And then I read it.

00:35I'm like, oh, this is actually really charming.

00:38And then I heard that Leighton was up for it.

00:40And I thought, you know,

00:41obviously having a great co-star is huge.

00:44And I'm a big fan of her work.

00:45And then I started to hear about all the people

00:47they wanted for my family.

00:49And Kathy and Michael and Veronica and Stephen.

00:52They're just very, very funny.

00:54And I knew Kathy's work from Whose Line Is It Anyway?

00:57And Michael from literally everything he's ever done.

01:01Being with what felt like truly from day one,

01:05such a well-gelled, fleshed-out family.

01:09Everyone was so fun and funny.

01:13I was excited to work with Robbie.

01:16And also the romance, the will-they-won't-they,

01:20like, that dynamic is just super fun for me

01:23when I watch movies.

01:24So I guess just, like, being part of that,

01:26like, living in that, like, world for a little bit.

01:29Just, it was exciting.

01:31Wanted to be part of it.

01:33The movie sees Meester's character Allie

01:35head to Minnesota to spend the holidays

01:36with her ex-fiancee Graham's family

01:38after she thinks he can't make it home for Christmas.

01:41But when he ends up surprising his fam last minute,

01:44he gets a big surprise of his own.

01:46Surprise!

01:48Graham, what are you doing here?

01:49I found all of these in the back closet.

01:51What are you doing here?

01:54I thought you said he was working.

01:55Is that Allie?

01:57The stars revealed how they like to celebrate

01:59the holidays with their families.

02:01I live in Canada,

02:03so there's no getting around it feeling like Christmas.

02:06The only nice thing about Christmas

02:07is that actually, like, the joyful stuff happens

02:10because to come November, it's cold and it's miserable,

02:13and then it starts to get rainy and then snowy.

02:16So once Christmas rolls around, it's a nice,

02:19it's actually a nice change.

02:20And my mom, well, my mother-in-law is,

02:23whatever you think Jeannie is in the movie,

02:28like 10x, that's my mother-in-law.

02:30She's got, I think she had seven Christmas trees last year.

02:34One of them has a train that drives around the tree.

02:38Like, it's really something.

02:40And my wife is Christmas obsessed.

02:41We've already got Christmas music plane.

02:44Actually, we're only two weeks in the Christmas music plane.

02:47The tree went up right after Halloween.

02:50So Christmas is a big deal, big deal around here.

02:54I live in L.A.

02:55and it's the one day out of the year today when it's raining,

02:58but like every other month.

03:00This, and like I said, like the Southern Hemisphere,

03:03like Australian Christmas is also a summer day.

03:05But L.A., like we go swimming, we walk on the beach,

03:10we hang in the jacuzzi.

03:11Okay, that's enough, please.

03:13I'm sorry, but it's just so nice here.

03:15And like you put on a little sweater and you're like,

03:18oh, it's chilly.

03:19And it's like 72.

03:22But I love it.

03:23Like we have, you know, I just love like waking up

03:26and like seeing if Santa came and like he did usually.

03:29Um, so it's just like, you know,

03:33I mean, there's nothing really like tradition.

03:35It's just we eat, we watch movies,

03:37we play board games and we go outside because we can.

03:43The two actors also shared what they enjoyed most

03:46about working with each other on this project.

03:48He's very like easy laugh.

03:50I really like felt like he thought,

03:52which is like, what?

03:55He just like likes to laugh and enjoys like the jokes

03:59and has fun and like is known to like play,

04:03um, which is also big in a Christmas way.

04:06Like you gotta be like childlike, you know?

04:08I will say everything that Leighton said

04:10is actually true about her as well.

04:13We had a lot of fun.

04:14We just tried to make each other laugh the whole time.

04:17But also, um, she was always very, you know,

04:21we were having a blast,

04:22but she also really cared about what we were making.

04:25So there were times that we were able to sit down

04:27and really figure out some of the more,

04:29like obviously the movie's a ton of fun,

04:31but there's also these more important scenes

04:32between the two of us where we're trying to make sure

04:34that the audience buys that we are,

04:36you know, you know, getting back together,

04:39falling out of love, falling back in love

04:42and just trying to make it feel as real as possible.

04:45And Leighton was always very good at making sure

04:47that the, we were kind of keeping on track

04:51and something that we would, that the audience would buy

04:53and, uh, and that we'd be proud of when, uh, when it comes out.

04:57X-mas is now streaming on Amazon Freebie.

05:00For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.

05:03For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.

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