Judy Greer was ‘very nervous’ around young co-stars on ‘Best Christmas Pageant Ever’: ‘More together than the adults’

nypost.com:

Judy Greer “would never do that.” But it’s a different story on-screen.Greer brings the mayhem in director Dallas Jenkins’ “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” where self-depracating Grace tries to wrangle disobedient kids to put on a community show for the holiday season.“I don’t even think I met them all,” Greer, 49, joked to The Post about her young co-stars. “There were so many kids.

And that actually made me very nervous. I haven’t spent a ton of time with kids, but I have two step-kids. But they were older when I met them.

They were 9 and 12 when I met, and there was only two of them instead of like 100, like in our movie.”“But what I quickly learned on set is that the kids were actually way more together than the adults on set.

We have allowed ourselves in the years to fall apart completely and to be unprofessional and lazy! And the children are not,” she went on. “They were amazing and they inspired all of us to be better than we thought we could be.”The “Halloween” actress “really loved” taking on the part as Grace opposite Pete Holmes, who played her husband Bob.“She just gets caught up in this whole situation kind of by accident,” she said of leading the annual pageant in town. “I love that Dallas Jenkins allowed me to make her vulnerable and make her self-deprecating and make her nervous and anxious and neurotic and all of the things that make me me.