"To be able to see my kids watch it and see what Papa does on the screen, I'm really excited for that," the father of two tells PEOPLE
Nothing feels quite as festive as Paris at Christmas.
In PEOPLE's exclusive debut of Great American Family’s A Paris Christmas Waltz trailer, retired dancer (Matthew Morrison) gets back in the game to pair up with an overworked accountant (Jen Lilley) for a competition in Paris.
“Christmas movies just bring so much joy. I love them,” Morrison, 45, tells PEOPLE. “There's so many of them, and I think there's so many for a reason. You want to have those feelings that it evokes for the holidays.”
Despite being trained in ballet, tap and jazz and dancing on Broadway, Morrison found it challenging learning to ballroom dance for A Paris Christmas Waltz.
“I think it would almost be easier if I didn't know how to dance going into this,” the Glee alum says. “I had to unlearn a lot of stuff that I knew because ballroom and Latin are so different and such different counterpoints and timings and stuff, so it was really challenging to unlearn. But then once I got it, it was such a feeling of accomplishment.”
Morrison also sings in A Paris Christmas Waltz, but dance “is what moves me,” he says. “To be able to tell stories through movement has always been so special to me and something that I feel very lucky that I'm able to do. I love being a storyteller through that way because I think it can evoke different types of emotions that I don't think you can convey in other arenas.”
Like in the movie, Morrison went on a journey with Lilley, 39, to learn how to dance.
“Jen was not much of a dancer going into this, so that made it very special,” Morrison says. “It was also special just having two weeks of just dance rehearsals before we even started shooting. It really built up the chemistry between her and I and going into it.”
Morrison and Lilley shot A Paris Christmas Waltz in Paris as well as Bucharest, Romania. After filming wrapped, Morrison and his wife Renee Puente embarked on a European vacation.
The father of son Revel, 6, and daughter Phoenix, 2, admits Christmas festivities have already begun in his house.
“My son is on one with video games,” Morrison says. “We do not do video games. He has never been introduced to a video game, but he is obsessed with Super Mario, with Minecraft. We did Santa's list a couple mornings ago, and he was naming all these video games, and I was like, ‘Santa makes toys. He doesn't do video games.’ So I had to break the news to him about that he should not expect any video games for Christmas.”
He wants to hold off on putting up the tree for a little bit, though.
"We usually put it up after Thanksgiving, but I think this year we're going to maybe put it up in the next couple weeks," the actor says. "There's never enough time with a Christmas tree. The problem with the Christmas tree though [is], once you put it up, the kids start asking for presents and expecting stuff to be under it."
Morrison plans to make watching A Paris Christmas Waltz part of his family’s holiday celebrations this year.
“This is one of those that I'm really proud of,” he says. “When you have your own children, it really reignites the [Christmas] experience again in a much deeper, more heart-centered way because you are seeing the wonderment through your children's eyes. That is something that's so special and particularly in a movie like this, to be able to see my kids watch it and see what Papa does on the screen, I'm really excited for that.”
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IndoctriNation podcast – Blessed Child w/ Renee Thomas
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/blessed-child-w-renee-thomas/id1373939526?i=1000582402639
October 12, 2022
Podcast hosted by Rachel Bernstein
Renee Thomas holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, while also being a tattoo artist and human rights activist. She was born and raised in the Unification Church as a 2nd generation “blessed child". A decade after leaving and processing life outside the cult, she now speaks about the experience publicly with the hashtag #exmoonie.
Renee is also the host of "Blessed Child", a podcast where people can come together and speak frankly on their vast range of experiences, within the moon cult and other systems of control. Blessed Child is a place for survivors to find community, deconstruct old belief systems, and share personal stories.
In this emotional and informative conversation, Renee offers Rachel her personal insights as a "Blessed Child" born into the Unification Church. She expertly encapsulates the sprawling authoritarian power and reach of the church as well as its narcissistic and destructive leaders. Together Renee and Rachel unpack the difficulties that are all too commonly experienced by second-generation members of high-control groups. Renee explains how she grounds herself through art and family and highlights the ways she works toward healing.
Before You Go: Rachel points out the importance of integrating into a connective and safe community in order to see yourself in the truest light, beyond the prejudices of the group's dogma, and examines Renee's powerful concept of leaving a thousand times.
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Additional information:
More info on Renee's artwork and her Blessed Child podcast here:
https://linktr.ee/renrobot
Politics:
Follow this link for more information on Christiane Coste, the murdered missionary that Renee mentioned, who helped establish The News World which helped lay the foundation for The Washington Times:
Raped and murdered: Sun Myung Moon said: “Our sister is a glorious martyr in God’s providence”
The bi-weekly Rising Tide was launched by the Freedom Leadership Foundation in the US in 1969.
News World was launched in New York on December 31, 1976
The Washington Times was launched in February 1982
The News World was rebranded as the New York City Tribune in April 1983
United States Congressional investigation of Moon’s organization
Politics and religion interwoven
The connection between Sun Myung Moon and Nobusuke Kishi began in the 1960s, not before.
The International Federation for Victory over Communism was founded in Seoul on January 13, 1968.
How Sun Myung Moon bought protection in Japan
https://tragedyofthesixmarys.com/moon-bought-protection-japan/
1a. The LDP’s Tangled Ties to the Unification Church (2022)
1b. NNLASS press conference held in Tokyo on FFWPU/UC “spiritual sales” (2022)
2. Richard J. Samuels – Kishi and Corruption: An Anatomy of the 1955 System (2001)
3. John Roberts – Earth-conquering Moonies (1978)
4. Kishi wrote a letter to US President Reagan to get Moon sprung from jail. (1984)
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There are reports that Sun Myung Moon asked for 84 mansions to be purchased for him all around the world.
Suicide of Japanese ‘Moon money mule’ in Uruguay. Mother of three children
Human trafficking in the Unification Church/FFWPU is despicable
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Indoctrination podcasts:
Whisked Away By The Moonies with Cynthia Lilley and Cathryn Mazer
- S3E1pt1
A Bond That Was Life-Saving with Cynthia Lilley and Cathryn Mazer, ex-Unification Church
- S3E1pt2
Teddy Hose on the Indoctrination podcast
Teddy Hose Moon and Machine
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