Daniel Stern says Home Alone had greater than its fair proportion of real-life scares — courtesy of Joe Pesci.
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight in an interview revealed Saturday, December 21, the actor shared how his co-star left Macaulay Culkin with a everlasting scar throughout a scene that received unexpectedly intense.
Pesci — who performed Harry, the fiery half of the bumbling “Wet Bandits” — as soon as bit Culkin’s finger for actual whereas filming a menacing scene. Stern admitted Pesci may very well be “a scary dude,” however affectionately described him as “a pricey good friend” who was totally dedicated to their characters’ villainous roles.
“We had been making an attempt within the first film to truly be scary to start out with, and you then realise we’re idiots,” Stern defined.
The unintentional chew occurred throughout a scene the place Harry threatens to chomp off Kevin’s fingers, and Pesci’s methodology performing left 10-year-old Culkin with an unforgettable memento.
“I’ve a scar,” Culkin revealed throughout a latest Q&A in Rosemont, Illinois. Recalling the second, he stated, “I noticed his face, and I’ve by no means, ever seen Joe Pesci truly scared. Because he’s like, ‘I simply bit a child!’”
Stern additionally mirrored on enduring his personal on-set terror involving a tarantula crawling throughout his face. “I assumed it will be a prop spider,” he joked. “The wrangler assured me, ‘He’s not going to chew you…’ So I let him crawl round on my face for about 5 minutes, simply so we each received used to one another.”
However, it was all price it for Stern as a result of he “received to hit Joe Pesci with a crowbar, in order that was enjoyable too.”
