When Caprice Bourret was a little girl, her beloved great- grandmother crocheted two Christmas stockings – one for her and one for her younger sister, Tippy. Every Christmas Eve those handmade stockings would be hung above the fireplace of their family home in Los Angeles, ready for the sisters to come down on Christmas morning where they would excitedly find them filled with presents. It’s a tradition that Caprice has continued with her own children, sons Jett and Jax, both aged 11.
“Can you believe my two boys have those stockings now, how cute is that? They love their stockings more than their Christmas presents. It’s about those little Christmas traditions from one generation to the next and I just love it,” Caprice says.
Although, much to Caprice’s heartbreak, the boys discovered the truth about Father Christmas a few years ago, it hasn’t stopped her from going all out. “I go a little bit over the top,” she says. I have four Christmas trees in my house. They go up on 1 November and I start listening to Christmas music in October.
“The boys knew about Santa when they were about eight years old. They were like, ‘Mummy, we know already, you can stop the charade.’ I was like, “OK…”, but it hasn’t stopped me. I’m obsessed with Christmas and happiness. With everything going on in the world, I just want it to be Christmas every day.”
As the self-proclaimed ‘Queen of Christmas’, it was always Caprice’s dream to make a Christmas movie. Back in January she flew to Zlatibor, Serbia, to make A European Christmas, a film she not only stars in but also produced. “I’ve always wanted to act, but nobody would give me a shot, they were like, ‘She’s a model, she can’t act!’ So I thought, ‘Well, I’ll do it myself then!’ I did my first movie last year, which was set in Ibiza, but it was always a dream of mine to do a Christmas movie,” reveals Caprice.
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Caprice plays film director Ivy Allen who, after yet another flop, is warned by her boss that if she doesn’t come up with a successful film, they will have to cut ties. Ivy goes to see the star of her only hit movie, Hunter Williams –played by actor Philip Boyd – who is now living a reclusive life as a single dad following the death of his Serbian wife, in the hope that he will return to acting.
“I absolutely fell in love with Zlatibor. It’s such a gorgeous place. We flew out in January last year and the entire village kept their Christmas decorations up for us,” says Caprice.
“With Christmas movies, you have to have snow but with my budget I couldn’t afford to make it. I don’t know what it was, but something magical happened; they only had three days of snow in Zlatibor the entire season and that’s when we were filming. We moved everything around in the schedule and shot all our outside scenes during those three days. It was crazy – our very own Christmas miracle.”
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During the 14-day shoot, Caprice did all her own stunts. Recalling one particularly diffic...
“Can you believe my two boys have those stockings now, how cute is that? They love their stockings more than their Christmas presents. It’s about those little Christmas traditions from one generation to the next and I just love it,” Caprice says.
Although, much to Caprice’s heartbreak, the boys discovered the truth about Father Christmas a few years ago, it hasn’t stopped her from going all out. “I go a little bit over the top,” she says. I have four Christmas trees in my house. They go up on 1 November and I start listening to Christmas music in October.
“The boys knew about Santa when they were about eight years old. They were like, ‘Mummy, we know already, you can stop the charade.’ I was like, “OK…”, but it hasn’t stopped me. I’m obsessed with Christmas and happiness. With everything going on in the world, I just want it to be Christmas every day.”
As the self-proclaimed ‘Queen of Christmas’, it was always Caprice’s dream to make a Christmas movie. Back in January she flew to Zlatibor, Serbia, to make A European Christmas, a film she not only stars in but also produced. “I’ve always wanted to act, but nobody would give me a shot, they were like, ‘She’s a model, she can’t act!’ So I thought, ‘Well, I’ll do it myself then!’ I did my first movie last year, which was set in Ibiza, but it was always a dream of mine to do a Christmas movie,” reveals Caprice.
image [https://cdn.magzter.com/1583506613/1732598464/articles/eCN14zYdI1732602678051/3199995491.jpg]
Caprice plays film director Ivy Allen who, after yet another flop, is warned by her boss that if she doesn’t come up with a successful film, they will have to cut ties. Ivy goes to see the star of her only hit movie, Hunter Williams –played by actor Philip Boyd – who is now living a reclusive life as a single dad following the death of his Serbian wife, in the hope that he will return to acting.
“I absolutely fell in love with Zlatibor. It’s such a gorgeous place. We flew out in January last year and the entire village kept their Christmas decorations up for us,” says Caprice.
“With Christmas movies, you have to have snow but with my budget I couldn’t afford to make it. I don’t know what it was, but something magical happened; they only had three days of snow in Zlatibor the entire season and that’s when we were filming. We moved everything around in the schedule and shot all our outside scenes during those three days. It was crazy – our very own Christmas miracle.”
image [https://cdn.magzter.com/1583506613/1732598464/articles/eCN14zYdI1732602678051/1922993595.jpg]
During the 14-day shoot, Caprice did all her own stunts. Recalling one particularly diffic...
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