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Alone in the house colleague Daniel Stern recounted the time Joe Pesci accidentally, and surprisingly, a little Macaulay Culkin‘s finger while filming one of the Christmas classic’s scare scenes.
Stern, 67, and Pesci, 81, starred in the 1990 holiday comedy as the Wet Bandits, two criminals who target the home of Culkin’s character, 8-year-old Kevin McCallister. To protect his family home, Kevin sets up a series of landmine traps to fend off the crooks.
Stern reminded of Entertainment Tonight of a very close encounter with Pesci, which Culkin recently revealed left him with a scar.
“I totally forgot about it,” Stern said.
“Joe is… he’s wonderful, I love him, he’s a dear friend, but he’s a scary guy,” Stern said. “He carried it all. We were trying in the first movie to actually be scary to begin with, and then you realize we’re idiots. But there was a fear factor that drove the drama of things,” Stern continued.
Pesci appeared to bite Culkin’s finger in the scene, and then he actually “bit it — like, ‘Oh, shit, I didn’t mean to,'” Stern recounted. “Joe said, ‘Ahh, I’m sorry I did that.’ But the only time you could see Pesci breaking,” he added.
During the recent question and answer, the now 44-year-old Culkin recalled the scene when his character’s thugs hold him against the door and Pesci’s Harry threatens to bite off Kevin’s finger.
“He was trying to scare me,” My Girl the star recalled. “He said, I want to be a threat to this kid. I saw his face – and I’ve never, ever seen Joe Pesci really scared. Because he’s like, I just bit a kid!”
Culkin was just 10 years old when he starred in the first one alongside Pesci and Stern Alone at home . The trio later returned for their 1992 follow-up. Lost in New York.
in 2022 Pesci recalled how he limited his interaction with Culkin on set during the sequel “to preserve the dynamic between his character, Kevin, and my character, Harry.”
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Oscar winner Good guys the actor said he didn’t want “to show on screen that we’re friendly in any way.”
“I wanted to maintain the integrity of the adversarial relationship,” he explained.
Still, he remembered Culkin as “a really sweet kid and, even at his age, very professional.”
Earlier this month, the actors who played Kevin’s siblings and cousins reunited for the first time in 30 years for a special meet and greet with fans at Pandora’s Box Toys & Collectibles in Lafayette, New Jersey.
The store’s Instagram documented the event, with the caption: “Guys eating trash and watching trash! You better get out there and stop me!!!” Macaulay’s parrot figure.
“Today’s event was so much fun! Thank you [actors] Devin Ratray @devinratray, Kristin Minter @kristin_minter, Michael C Maronna, Angela Goethals @g0ethals, Jed Cohen and everyone who came to … celebrate their Home Alone Fandom with all of us today here at @pandorasboxtoysandcollectibles.”