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Home Alone star explains Macaulay Culkin and Joe Pesci’s unscripted accident

Home Alone star explains Macaulay Culkin and Joe Pesci’s unscripted accident

“Joe is… he’s wonderful, I love him, he’s a dear friend, but he’s a scary guy, and he carried everything,” Stern said.

“We were trying in the first film to… be really scary at the beginning, and SO you realize we are idiots. But there was a fear factor that triggered the drama of the thing. »

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And it was this thought that caused Pesci to bite Culkin.

“Then he bit him – like, ‘Oh shit, I didn’t really mean that.’ Joe said to me, ‘Ah, sorry I did that.'”

This was the only time Pesci broke character, according to Stern.

Home Alone's Malcaulay Culkin looks in the mirror in shock

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Culkin himself admitted this during a recent interview with the New York Timesto which Pesci refused to comment.

“He was trying to scare me, thinking it would help the thief-victim dynamic,” said actor Kevin, who was just 10 when he played a young child who defends his house from being burglarized during the holidays. Christmas after his death. His family accidentally flies to Paris without him.

“He said to me, ‘I want to be threatening to this child.'”

Culkin went on to reveal that he even had a scar from the accident.

“I saw his face – and I never saw Joe Pesci really scared because he was like, ‘I just bit a kid!'”

Culkin also revealed that he was tempted to buy the Winnetka house where the film was set every time it came up for sale over the years.

“I half wanted to buy it – just for laughs,” he added.

Home Alone is streaming on Disney Plus and Channel 4.

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