A Christmas Story's Peter Billingsley is back in the spotlight, 27 years later. "Ralphie" was interviewed Monday night on ABC's Nighttime show.

"No one wanted to make it," Billingsley says of the movie today, according to the AP's retelling of the interview. "It was, you know, a kid wants a BB gun, not the greatest most cinematic pitch in the world."

That won't stop TBS from airing A Christmas Story for 24 straight hours beginning at 8 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Click here to read more from the interview.