The actress got choked up about her 1989 comedy becoming a perennial holiday classic.

Juliette Lewishad no ideaNational Lampoon’s Christmas Vacationwould become such a beaut a beaut!

of a holiday classic.

NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION, Johnny Galecki, Beverly D’Angelo, Chevy Chase, Juliette Lewis, 1989

‘National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation’.Everett Collection

Lewis replied, “How can I be mad at that?”

Sorry, I didn’t mean to cry."

Lewis has been told by viewers that she’s a part of their family, she said.

“People who have lost their parents, or whatever, what it meant to the.

It’s a tradition.

Chase was “really supportive,” Lewis said, as wasJohnny Galecki, who played her brother Russell.

There, her former costars praised her performance at just 15.

“Everybody knew she had it,” D’Angelo added.

“[They’d go] ‘Oh that Juliette, though.

She’s got it.”