Home Alone star remembers Joe Pesci biting Macaulay Culkin’s finger during filming

Home alone Co-star Daniel Stern has told how Joe Pesci accidentally and unexpectedly bit Macaulay Culkin’s finger while filming one of the Christmas classic’s intimidation scenes.

Stern, 67, and Pesci, 81, starred in the 1990 Christmas comedy as the Wet Bandits, two criminals who target the home of Culkin’s character, 8-year-old Kevin McCallister. To protect his family’s home, Kevin sets up a series of booby traps to ward off the scammers.

Stern was reminded of this Entertainment tonight of the very up-close encounter with Pesci, which Culkin recently revealed left him with a scar.

“I completely forgot about that,” 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 everything. We tried to actually be scary from the start in the first film, and Then You realize we’re idiots. But there was a fear factor that created the drama of it,” Stern continued.

Pesci appeared to bite Culkin’s finger in the scene, then actually bit him “like, ‘Oh crap, I didn’t actually mean to do that,'” Stern said. “Joe was like, ‘Ahh, sorry I did that.’ But the only time you could see Pesci breaking character,” he added.

During a recent Q&A, Culkin, now 44, recalled the scene in which bandits pinned his character against a door and Pescis Harry threatened to bite off Kevin’s finger.

“He tried to scare me,” he said my girl Star remembered. “He said: I want to threaten this child. I saw his face – and I’ve never seen Joe Pesci truly scared. Because he says, “I just bit a child!”

Culkin was only 10 years old when he starred alongside Pesci and Stern in the first film Home alone . The trio later returned for the 1992 sequel. Lost in New York.

In 2022, Pesci recalled limiting his on-set interactions with Culkin during the sequel “to preserve the dynamic between his character Kevin and my character Harry.”

The Oscar-winning Goodfellas The actor said he didn’t want “it to appear on screen that we were friends in any way.”

“I wanted to preserve the integrity of the adversarial relationship,” he explained.

Still, he remembered Culkin as a “really lovely boy and very professional even at his age.”

Earlier this month, the actors who played Kevin’s siblings and cousins ​​met 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 account documented the event, noting, “Guys, I’m eating junk food and looking at trash! You better come out and stop me!!!” Parroting Macaulay’s character.

“Today’s event was so much fun! Thank you to (actor) Devin Ratray @devinratray, Kristin Minter @kristin_minter, Michael C Maronna, Angela Goethals @g0ethals, Jed Cohen and everyone who came to…today with all of us your Home Alone fandom here at @pandorasboxtoysandcollectibles to celebrate.”