He didn’t feel any holiday spirit.

Director Chris Columbus, best known for the films “Home Alone,” “Mrs. Doubtfire and Harry Potter, said he was also supposed to direct 1989’s National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation – but he passed on it because of the film’s star Chevy Chase.

“I got signed… and then I met Chevy Chase. Even given the situation I was in at the time, where I really needed to make a movie, I realized I couldn’t work with the guy,” Columbus said in a recent interview with Vanity Fair.

The film was ultimately directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik.

The comedy follows Clark Griswold (Chase), a Chicago man with a wife and children who wants a nice Christmas with his family, but events soon descend into chaos. Johnny Galecki, Juliette Lewis and Beverly D’Angelo starred.

Columbus explained that he had two meetings with the former “SNL” actor before telling the film’s writer and co-producer John Hughes: “This is really hard for me, but I can’t do this movie with Chevy Chase make.”

Columbus said that when they first met, he sat down with Chase, “just the two of us.”

“He had to know I was directing the film. I talked about how I saw the movie and how I wanted to make it,” Columbus added.

“He didn’t say anything. I talked for about half an hour. He didn’t say a word. And then he pauses and says – and this doesn’t make sense to anyone on the planet, but I’m telling you. I’ve probably never told this story before. Forty minutes into the meeting he says, ‘Wait a minute.’ You’re the director?’ “

After Columbus explained that he was directing the film, he recalled that Chase “told me something unreal and bizarre.” I still couldn’t make sense of it. He said, ‘Oh, I thought you were a drummer.’ I said, ‘Uhh, okay.’ Let’s start talking about the movie again.’ After about 30 seconds he said, “I have to go.”

In his second meeting with the comedian, he said he met him for dinner with Hughes, who wrote and co-produced the film.

During that dinner, “I was basically nonexistent,” Columbus said, while Chase and Hughes talked about everything but the movie.

“We spent two hours together, and when I left dinner I thought, ‘There’s no way I can do a movie with this guy,'” Columbus told the outlet.

The “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” director added: “First of all, he’s not engaged. He treats me like shit. I don’t need that. I would rather not work again.”

Columbus said, “I thought, ‘So are we going to work together?’ “I’ll be on set and he won’t listen.”

Chase, 81, was also reportedly difficult to work with on the NBC sitcom Community, which ran from 2009 to 2014.

Chase appeared in four seasons of “Community” before being fired from the series in 2013 after he allegedly used a racial slur toward Donald Glover during filming. A heated confrontation with the show’s creator, Dan Harmon, also followed.

During an interview with The Washington Post later that year, Chase did not deny using the slur.

“I could have said it,” Chase told the outlet, before noting that it would have been misinterpreted. He then added that he had been a fan of Glover the entire time they worked together on Community and denied that he was a fanatic.

A “Community” movie is in the works, and in April co-star Joel McHale told The Post, “I don’t think (Chase) should be in it.”

The Post reached out to Chase representatives for comment.