Peter Gallagher remembers the first time he heard the word “Chrismukkah,” long before it became an annual pop culture phenomenon.
On Wednesday, October 23, PEOPLE spoke with OC alum, 69, at Broadway’s opening night Left on Tenth — a play in which he stars alongside Julianna Margulies.
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Peter Gallagher, October 2024.
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While on the red carpet at the James Earl Jones Theater in New York, Gallagher reflected on the holiday, which first introduced his TV son Adam Brody’s character, Seth Cohen, to OC 2003 The hybrid name combines Christmas and Hanukkah and was created to celebrate the best that both holidays had to offer while bringing people of different backgrounds together.
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“I just remember hearing Krismuka for the first time and thinking, ‘That’s brilliant. I think it’s going to stay,’ and it did,” Gallagher, who played Sandy Cohen’s father on the show, tells PEOPLE.
Rachel Bilson, known for her breakout role as Summer Roberts on the show, also recently spoke with PEOPLE about the holiday episode, adding that she plans to incorporate Chrisma into her real life as a mother.
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THE OC, Melinda Clarke, Mischa Barton, Peter Gallagher, Kelly Rowan, Adam Brody, “The Chrismukkah Bar Mitz-vahkkah”.
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“I like to teach my daughter some Jewish traditions and stuff, but Christmas itself is like its own holiday that we didn’t really have,” Bilson, 43, told PEOPLE of her daughter Briar Rose, 9, with ex Hayden Christensen. “But it sounds like this year could be the first.”
As for Gallagher — who has said in the past that he’s still in touch with him OC cast — he couldn’t be more proud of his TV son.
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“I wouldn’t go that far to be a proud dad,” he tells PEOPLE while discussing the recent success of Brody’s Netflix series, Nobody wants this.
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“I haven’t seen the show, but I’m proud of him all the time as his friend and former TV dad, and I’m not surprised at all,” says Gallagher, calling Brody, 44, “so talented.”
“And I’m glad he’s still doing his thing.”
Gallagher’s latest role alongside Margulies, 58, for Left on Tenth is Delia Ephron’s romantic comedy based on her bestselling memoir of the same name.
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