‘Hot Frosty’ Stars Lacey Chabert and Dustin Milligan on ‘Liberating’ Nude Scene and That ‘Mean Girls’ Nod

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Katcy Stephan A red knit scarf. That’s all Dustin Milligan’s sexy snowman ‘Jack’ is wearing when audiences first meet him in Netflix’s latest Christmas film “Hot Frosty.” “I was obviously very exposed during all of that, but in a way, doing what I could to just shed all of my own inhibitions and be liberated as Jack would have been in that moment, Milligan tells Variety of stripping down. “It was liberating for me!” In a fantastical plot that’s just off-the-rails enough to work, “Hot Frosty” follows Lacey Chabert’s Kathy, a widow and paragon of her local community, as she unwittingly brings a snow sculpture (with chiseled abs) to life with the help of that red scarf and a little Christmas magic. “It doesn’t take itself too seriously, and the characters within the movie are in on the joke in a way,” Chabert says of the film as she recalls an early scene when the town’s doctor (Katy Mixon) accepts the reality of an anthropomorphized snowman with little questioning. “When I opened the script, it was only a couple pages in where I realized, ‘Oh, wait a second, this movie has a lot of heart, and it’s really romantic and it’s really funny.’” “One of the strengths is that it very much presents as though it’s going to be one thing, and then it tricks you,” Milligan adds. “It’s a Christmas trick, and it gives you the best gift of all, which is a sense of joy.” Jack’s unbridled happiness and wide-eyed sense of wonder leads Kathy, who’s thrown herself into her work after the death of her beloved husband, to prioritize her own happiness again.