<\/p>\n8. Quiet down, Yeti<\/h2>\n
Downtown Minerva was happening on a Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Roxy Theatre featured entertainment. Customers packed Sandy Springs Brewing Co. And heavy trucks rumbled past Walker’s Cafe occasionally, forcing the sound crew to pause a few scenes.<\/p>\n
Disruptions were comedic, too, including when a large decorative Christmas Yeti outside of Walker’s Cafe unleashed a monstrous growl.<\/p>\n
Ice, the assistant director, hollered out: “Can we find out if we can kill the Yeti?” Her demand triggered laughter among the crew, and the Yeti was promptly turned off.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n9. Who plays Santa?<\/h2>\n
“A Christmas Drawn Together” is loaded with Carroll County connections.<\/p>\n
That includes Tom Konst, who has a background in live theater there. Konst makes guest appearances throughout the movie as a different Santa each time.<\/p>\n\n“He has a bunch of different Santa outfits and even had Scott Schwartz from ‘A Christmas Story’ wear one of his Santa coats for a scene,” Ice said.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n10. Will Rep writer appear in ‘A Christmas Drawn Together’?<\/h2>\n
My role was so minor that I’m highly skeptical it will be seen.<\/p>\n
But as filming concluded at Walker’s Cafe, I sheepishly asked the assistant director whether my side profile would make the final cut.<\/p>\n\nShe assured me it would. How cool. How quirky. Seriously, I’d take a microscopic role in a Hallmark movie over a bit part in a Hollywood blockbuster such as “Avatar” or “Superman.”<\/p>\n
Sure, Hallmark movies aren’t high art. But who cares. The thought of my wife and daughter cozying up on the couch for a Hallmark binge fest … and spying the back of my head for milliseconds … would be a hoot. A bucket list moment all the way.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nReach Ed at ebalint@gannett.com. Follow on Instagram at ed_balint and TikTok at @edwardbalint<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.cantonrep.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch video of Ohio-made romantic movie ‘A Christmas Drawn Together’ Filming has wrapped for “A Christmas Drawn Together,” a romantic movie made in Minerva, Carrollton and the Magnolia area in Northeast Ohio. “A Christmas Drawn Together” features 150 extras, including Canton Repository entertainment writer Ed Balint. The independent movie features a former “Three’s Company” actor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2260935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[39915,376189,23763,306113,25312,25317,22220,353090,385203,437908,21751,239390,353212,22116,379049,22339,240772,43013,28546,344542,345533,6297,21741,22034,21993,331700,323324,345132,345135,25632,239349,339770,392554,437907,66715,405277,21739,298114,22797,345133,368931,422215,22020,241909,21912,22773,325433,310532,23191,211924,21738,305209,376192,39215,366777,366772,239343,239453,239347,23759,355193,147314,349407,432906,373637,379058,69477,356973,67134,21848,366771,356884,23808,319010,22205,376188,21913,239344,21942],"class_list":["post-2260934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-affiliate","tag-alliance","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-prime-video","tag-apple","tag-apple-tv","tag-arts","tag-canton","tag-carroll","tag-carroll-county","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","tag-channel","tag-christmas","tag-claus","tag-comedy","tag-comedy-films","tag-content","tag-county","tag-drama","tag-drama-films","tag-eamotion","tag-entertainment","tag-events","tag-films","tag-hallmark","tag-hallmark-channel","tag-holiday","tag-holiday-marketplace-hub","tag-holidays","tag-holidays-u0026-seasonal-events","tag-hub","tag-independent","tag-independent-movies","tag-jackson","tag-jackson-township","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-louisville","tag-marketplace","tag-massillon","tag-minerva","tag-movie","tag-movie-reference","tag-movies","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-nba","tag-netflix","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-north","tag-north-canton","tag-oh","tag-oh-content-sharing-stark-only","tag-only","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-overall-positive","tag-positive","tag-prime","tag-reference","tag-romance","tag-romance-films","tag-santa","tag-santa-claus","tag-seasonal","tag-services","tag-sharing","tag-sports","tag-stark","tag-stark-county","tag-streaming","tag-streaming-services","tag-television","tag-township","tag-tv","tag-u0026","tag-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Threes-Company-OKC-Thunder-and-other-cool-things-about-Ohio-scaled.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260936,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260934\/revisions\/2260936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2260935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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