Peter Billingsley recently reminisced about watching the holiday classic with Hugh Hefner.
While conversing with the New York Post during a recent Boys & Girls Club of Harlem charity event in Times Square in New York City, the 54-year-old American actor and filmmaker revealed that he once watched a holiday classic movie at the age of 18 with Hefner.
Billingsley, also famous as Peter Michaelsen and Peter Billingsley-Michaelsen, said, “He [Hefner] was a huge fan of the movie … I was invited up there for a screening one time, which was actually very cool.”
The star of A Christmas Story added, “I was 18. It was very fun.”
When asked to share more details of his unforgettable experience, he quipped, “No more great story to that other than Hef [Hefner] being a very gracious host.”
Moving forward, Billingsley reflected on getting cast in the 1983 Christmas comedy film, A Christmas Story, and unveiled that he did not hear back about his audition for months.
He stated, “I never heard anything. About three months later, I got a callback. I had assumed I hadn’t gotten it.”
“I happened to be the very first boy to ever audition … and [director Bob Clark] said, ‘Oh, that’s the guy.’ But obviously you’re not going to hire the first guy. So he went around for three months … they went across the country. It was a massive search,” Billingsley explained.
