My Secret Santa<\/a> follows the story of a single mom who loses her job around Christmas time.<\/p>\n\u201cHer 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,\u201d Victoria actor Dominic Fox said in a phone interview with CHEK News. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd in the midst of everything, you know, sparks fly with the hotel manager of this ski resort.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fox plays the Chief Elf, Santa\u2019s second-in-command.<\/p>\n
Alexandra Breckenridge and Ryan Eggold play the starring roles in the film.<\/p>\n
The movie was filmed in Kamloops at Sun Peak Resort.<\/p>\n
Fox says when he got the call that he was cast, he was \u201cover the moon.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLike, 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,\u201d Fox said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen I got the call for the booking about a month later, I was just blown away. It was a total dream. It\u2019s been something I\u2019ve been working towards for a long time. It was definitely a dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fox says he started acting when he was 11 in summer camps and in theatres.<\/p>\n
\u201cI 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,\u201d Fox said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo have this in my in my repertoire, this movie, so early, is just a total honour.\u201d<\/p>\n
The movie premiered on Netflix on Dec. 3, and Fox says the reception has been great.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe support from everybody has been overwhelming,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI 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\u2019t talked to in forever.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beyond people he knows, Fox says the support from the community has been amazing as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really am really, really grateful for all the support in the community,\u201d Fox said. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I just want to say, I\u2019m really proud to be part of this community in Victoria and on Vancouver Island, because it\u2019s been so amazing to see everybody with all this has been such an honour.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re looking for another way to keep things local for the holiday, you can catch a Victoria…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-369133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}