In 2004, Tea Leoni spent Christmas with her family in a hotel in New York. “My [five year old] daughter is very concerned,” she remarked, “because she knows that at the hotel there is no chimney. We were in the car and she said, ‘What about no chimney?’ So I was trying to think on my feet and I said, ‘You know, lots of people don’t have chimneys so what we do is… we leave the front door open, and then Santa just comes in that way.’

“She was quiet for a few minutes, and I’m looking in the rearview mirror, going, ‘Did she buy it? Did she buy it?’ And suddenly she goes, ‘That would be a really good night to rob somebody!’”