You can’t always get what you want
NEW YORK — Sometimes, Santa leaves scars, by way of kid-coveted gifts that never landed under the tree.
And sometimes, the big guy in the red suit just gets it wrong. Ask Will Smith.
“My sister got the Easy-Bake Oven instead of me,” he said promoting his movie Collateral Beauty. “I don’t know why they don’t give boys EasyBake Ovens, you know? Boys should be able to cook stuff, so that was actually a tragedy from my youth, that my sister got the Easy-Bake Oven and I didn’t,” Smith joked.
For Jennifer Aniston, who co-stars in Office Christmas Party, the elusive holiday gift of Christmas Past amounted to Barbie denied. Or at least part of Barbie.
“The Barbie head,” to be exact, to which co-star Jason Bateman wondered on a red carpet: “Just the head?”
Aniston: “Yeah, the bust. Remember? The hair could grow. You could pull out the hair and then you could cut it. Paint makeup on it.”
The still-not-sure Bateman: “So a life-size bust?” “Yeah,” she replied. Actress Lily Collins was in the Barbie struggle: “I wanted a Barbie Jeep. I never got my Barbie Jeep.”
It was personal for country-pop star Kelsea Ballerini.
“I swear every year me and my mom went to go see The Nutcracker, she recalled.
“I’ve never told this story before. Every year I wanted one of the big tutus, like the big straight-out sequined tutus, and so one year I wrote a letter to Santa very seriously and very well-spoken, and I said: ‘Santa, I’m gonna reason with you,”’ she explained.
“I need a tutu because I’ve gone to The Nutcracker like seven years in a row, my last name is Ballerini, I’m basically a ballerina and I need a tutu.’ And I didn’t get one.”