Zooey Deschanel is sharing her thoughts on the decades-long debate of whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie or not.
The 45-year-old actress is in an iconic Christmas movie of her own, Elf, and recently weighed in if she thinks the Bruce Willis action movie would be considered a Christmas movie.
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“It is,” she simply tells People. “It takes place on Christmas.”
“And maybe it’s not like Elf or something, where there’s a magical creature or a magical person or whatever at the center of the film — so it doesn’t have that, like, super Christmas forward element — but it has Christmas in the background,” Zooey added.
If you missed it, Die Hard is one of the films on our list of 10 Unconventional Christmas Movies!
In addition to Elf, Zooey also stars in the new movie Merv, which is also centered around the holidays.
Speaking of Elf, Zooey also revealed the actress she nearly lost her role to!