If you’re looking for another way to keep things local for the holiday, you can catch a Victoria actor’s debut role as a Chief Elf.
My Secret Santa follows the story of a single mom who loses her job around Christmas time.
“Her daughter needs to get into this super expensive snowboarding school, so she ends up having to go undercover as Santa at the ski resort where the snowboarding lessons are to pay for the ski lessons,” Victoria actor Dominic Fox said in a phone interview with CHEK News.
“And in the midst of everything, you know, sparks fly with the hotel manager of this ski resort.”
Fox plays the Chief Elf, Santa’s second-in-command.
Alexandra Breckenridge and Ryan Eggold play the starring roles in the film.
The movie was filmed in Kamloops at Sun Peak Resort.
Fox says when he got the call that he was cast, he was “over the moon.”
“Like, jumping up and down with joy, maybe literally as well. It was incredible. I remember doing the audition. It was really special to me, because these Christmas movies, all of them, they have a special place in my heart,” Fox said.
“Then I got the call for the booking about a month later, I was just blown away. It was a total dream. It’s been something I’ve been working towards for a long time. It was definitely a dream come true.”
Fox says he started acting when he was 11 in summer camps and in theatres.
“I realized by Grade 11 that I was 100 per cent sure this is what I wanted to put all of my effort into, and make it my life,” Fox said.
“To have this in my in my repertoire, this movie, so early, is just a total honour.”
The movie premiered on Netflix on Dec. 3, and Fox says the reception has been great.
“The support from everybody has been overwhelming,” he said.
“I got so many messages, and I got people posting about me, and I got, you know, people coming up to me in real life, or reconnecting with old friends that I hadn’t talked to in forever.”
Beyond people he knows, Fox says the support from the community has been amazing as well.
“I really am really, really grateful for all the support in the community,” Fox said.
“And I just want to say, I’m really proud to be part of this community in Victoria and on Vancouver Island, because it’s been so amazing to see everybody with all this has been such an honour.”