Emmy-winning set decorator by day, Christmas Santa by holiday season: In Stephen Fackrell’s 30-year long only-in-Southern-California career, he’s crossed paths with thousands of hopeful children and an elf named Will Ferrell (yes, that one).
” became a holiday classic, it is almost impossible to see a Santa, any Santa, and not reenact, or at least think of, Will Ferrell as Buddy the Elf utterly freaking out over seeing a department store Santa. Or Buddy’s horrified gasp of “You’re not Santa” when he realizes this is not the real deal.
“Not at all,” says Stephen Paul Fackrell, 58. He recently donned the big red suit for a Good Deeds Corps voter-registration fundraiser at the, which included a screening of “Elf” and photos with Ferrell and Santa. “[Ferrell] was lovely. In the middle of it, he leaned over to tell me that he had once been Santa in Pasadena and that he imagined I was pretty hot in my suit. But I wasn’t. I never feel anything but joy in that suit.
That was back when department stores ruled the holiday season and many offered the kind of ornate winter wonderlands seen in “Elf.” As a decorator, Frackell would come in the day before Thanksgiving and work until the store was transformed for Black Friday. “One day it’s normal, the next day it’s Christmas,” he says.
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