Home alone Star Daniel Stern has revealed his scary encounter with a real spider on the set of the film. Star memorable played half of it Wet bandits with Joe Pesci In Home alone.

The climactic scenes of the 1990 Christmas classic memorably show 8-year-old Kevin McCallister using homemade booby traps to prevent the Wet Bandits from breaking into his home. At one point, Stern’s character Marv screams in horror as a tarantula runs across his face as he recovers from a burn from an iron. In conversation with Entertainment tonightStern revealed that he was completely surprised when it came time to film the spider encounter. “I was kind of in a groove of doing crazy things at that point, so when I showed up on set to do the spider thing, I thought… “Let’s see what happens.” I’m sure they’ll have a great prop spider.’ And they didn’t (have a prop)'” he recalled. “They had one real spider that the wrangler told me, ‘He won’t bite you.’ You’ll be fine.’”

“The wrangler told me, ‘He won’t bite you.’ You’ll be fine.’”

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Stern recalls that he wasn’t afraid to have a real tarantula fly across his face in several shots. “I said, ‘Okay, do it,'” he said. “So They put the spider on me and I let it crawl on my face for about five minutesjust so we both get used to each other. And then we just rolled the camera.

While Stern wasn’t injured in his spider encounter, his co-star Macaulay Culkin wasn’t quite as lucky. Stern previously spoke to Entertainment Tonight about co-star Joe Pesci getting carried away and biting one of Culkin’s fingers while rehearsing a scene in which the Wet Bandits face Kevin McCallister. “(Joe is) wonderful, I love him, he’s a dear friend, but he’s a scary guy and he’s carried everything with him. Because he was – we tried to be really scary from the start in the first movie, and then you realize we’re idiots. But there was a fear factor that created the drama of the matter.”

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Stern recalled that Pesci immediately quit his role when he realized he had accidentally injured his young co-star. “He bit it – like, ‘Oh shit, I didn’t mean to do that,'” Stern recalled. “Joe was like, ‘Oh, I’m sorry I did that.’ But (that’s the) only time you could see Pesci (character) breaking.” The 1990 holiday classic features a long segment in which Stern and Pesci’s “Wet Bandits” are tortured by Kevin McCallister’s homemade traps, so Culkin may have been the last laugh after the minor injury.

Culkin confirmed during a recent question-and-answer session with fans that Pesci temporarily lost control because he was trying to “scare” the child actor. “He said, ‘I want to threaten this kid… (and now) I have a scar,” Culkin added. “I saw (Pesci’s) face — and I’ve never seen Joe Pesci really scared.” Because he’s like, ‘I just bit a kid!'” He previously told Conan O’Brien that Pesci’s bite broke the skin on his finger, which made the young actor “really angry” at his co-star. “That was me, ‘I don’t care how many Oscars you have or whatever, biting a nine-year-old, what the hell is wrong with you?'” he recalled.

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Home Alone fans are often confused by the McCallisters’ unlimited financial resources. The book “Kevin – Home Alone” offers all the answers to fans’ questions.

• Home alone was written by The Breakfast Club And Weird scienceis John Hughes, directed by Future Harry Potter Filmmaker Chris Columbus

• The 1990 film was nominated for two Oscars and two Golden Globe Awards.

• Home alone was added to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

The Home alone The films continued with various sequels and spin-offs over the years, but Culkin has always refused to reprise his role as Kevin ever since Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. There were initial discussions with Culkin about making a third film Home alone Guess one after the other Lost in New York, although it didn’t come to that. After the release of 1994, Culkin took a long break from acting Richie Richbut later returned to the screen as an adult with roles in Party monsters And American horror story.

Home alone is now available to stream on Disney+.

Source: Entertainment Tonight

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Home alone

An eight-year-old troublemaker who was mistakenly left home alone must defend his house against two burglars on Christmas Eve.

director

Chris Columbus

Release date

November 16, 1990

Pour

Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Roberts Blossom, Catherine O’Hara

writer

John Hughes

Duration

103 minutes

Continuation(s)

Home Alone 3, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Home Alone 4

Production company

budget

18 million

Studio(s)

20th century

Sales partner

20th century

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