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Alone in the house Actress Catherine O’Hara revealed she struggled to deliver one of them Christmas movie lines for Macaulay Culkin
An actor who has reunited with former child starsappeared in 1990 festive movieshe plays Kate McCallister, the mother of Culkin’s Kevin.
In the film based on the screenplay by John Hughes, directed by Chris Columbus, Kevin is left at home when his family goes on vacation for Christmas. At one stage near the beginning, Kevin has an argument with his family the night before they leave for Paris.
When his mom sends him to the attic to sleep as punishment, he says he doesn’t want to see him “for the rest of the night,” to which Kevin replies, “I don’t want to see you again for the rest of my life, and I don’t want to see anyone else either.” .”
Here, his mum says: “I hope you don’t think so – you’d feel pretty sad if you woke up tomorrow morning and didn’t have a family.”
However, according to O’Hara, she struggled deeply with the line that followed.
The Schitt’s Creek The star revealed the detail while giving a speech about Culkin at the ceremony to unveil his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in December 2023.
“The scene where I have to drag him upstairs to sleep in the attic because he’s misbehaving, he’s rambling about family, and I’m like, ‘Well, you’d be pretty sad if you woke up tomorrow morning and there’s no family,’ and he’s like, ‘No , I wouldn’t’. And I should have said, ‘Then say it again – maybe it will happen.’
O’Hara continued: “I can’t tell you how much it killed me – I couldn’t turn around and say something so horrible to this beautiful child.” She then quipped: “Of course I wasn’t a mother then and I had no idea what kind of things would come out of my mouth with my two sons.”
In her candid speech, O’Hara reflected on the success of Home Alone, crediting it to Culkin’s performance. He was 10 years old at the time.
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She went on to praise Culkin for “surviving” massive fame at such a young age. “This beautiful 10-year-old boy was called a superstar, a money maker, one of the hottest leading men in Hollywood all over the world. How does one survive that?” she asked and added: “I believe you must possess a certain quality, a gift, which dear John Hughes evidently recognized in you Macaulay, your sense of humour.
“It is a sign of intelligence in a child and the key to surviving life at any age. From what I can see, you’ve brought that sweet, yet twisted, yet totally relatable sense of humor to everything you’ve chosen to do since then Alone at home.”
She told the crowd at the ceremony held on the streets of Los Angeles:Alone in the house was, is and always will be a beloved global sensation. The reason families around the world can’t let a year go by without watching and loving Alone in the house it’s together because of Macaulay Culkin. Yes, it had a great script and a wonderful director.
“But Macaulay’s pitch-perfect performance as Kevin McCallister is what gave us that little every boy on an extraordinary adventure.”
She told the visibly emotional former child star: “I know you’ve worked really hard, I know you have, but you make acting seem like the most natural thing in the world. It was really like we ambushed this real little boy named Kevin to make the movie, and he just went along with it for fun.”