Home alone Actress Catherine O’Hara has revealed she had a hard time delivering a line from the Christmas movie to Macaulay Culkin

The actor, who reunited with the former child star, appeared in the 1990 fest film, playing Kate McCallister, the mother of Culkin’s Kevin.

In the film, written by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus, Kevin is left at home when his family goes on vacation for Christmas. At the beginning, Kevin gets into an argument with his family the evening before they leave for Paris.

When his mother sends him to sleep in the attic as punishment, she says she 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 the night.” Rest of my life, and I don’t want to see anyone anymore.”

Here his mother says, “I hope you don’t mean that – you’d be pretty sad if you woke up tomorrow morning and didn’t have a family.”

However, according to O’Hara, she had a lot of trouble with the following line.

The Schitt’s Creek The star revealed this detail while giving a speech about Culkin at a ceremony unveiling his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in December 2023.

“In the scene where I had to drag him upstairs to sleep in the attic because he was misbehaving, he’s talking about family and I say, ‘Well, you’d be pretty sad if you woke up in the morning would and would have done that.’ no family,” and he says, “No, I wouldn’t.” And I should say, “Then say it again – maybe it will happen.”

O’Hara continued: “I can’t tell you how much this killed me – I couldn’t imagine saying something so terrible to this beautiful child.” She then quipped: “Of course I wasn’t a mother back then and I had no idea something like that would come out of my own mouth with my own two sons.”

In her heartfelt speech, O’Hara reflected on the success of Home Alone and attributed 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” great fame at such a young age. “This beautiful 10-year-old little boy has been hailed around the world as a superstar, a moneymaker and one of Hollywood’s hottest young leading men. How does anyone survive that?” she asked, adding, “I think you must have a certain quality, a gift that dear John Hughes obviously recognized in you, Macaulay, your sense of humor.”

“It is a sign of a child’s intelligence and a key to survival in life at any age. From what I understand, you’ve brought that sense of sweet yet twisted yet totally relatable sense of humor to everything you’ve done since Home alone.”

She told the crowd gathered at the ceremony, which took place on the streets of Los Angeles: “Home alone was, is and always will be a beloved global sensation. The reason why families around the world can’t let a year go by without watching and loving Home alone together is thanks to Macaulay Culkin. Yes, he had an excellent script and a wonderful director.

“But it is Macaulay’s perfect performance as Kevin McCallister that gave us that special something in this extraordinary adventure.”

She told the visibly emotional former child star: “I know you worked really hard, I know you did, but you made acting look like the most natural thing in the world.” It really was, like we raided this real little boy named Kevin to make a movie and he joined in just for the fun of it.”