Home Alone star recalls Joe Pesci biting Macaulay Culkin’s finger while filming

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Alone at home Co-star Daniel Stern has told of the time Joe Pesci accidentally and surprisingly bit Macaulay Culkin’s finger while filming one of the Christmas classic’s scare scenes.

Stern, 67, and Pesci, 81, co-starred in the 1990 holiday 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 traps to ward off the scammers.

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

“I completely forgot about it,” 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 it all. We actually tried in the first movie to be scary to start with, and so you know we’re idiots. But there was a fear factor that set up the drama of the case,” Stern continued.

Pesci appeared to bite Culkin’s finger in the scene, so he actually “bit it — like, ‘Oh shit, I didn’t really mean that,'” Stern recounted. “Joe said, ‘Ahh, sorry I did that.’ But the only time you might see Pesci break” character, he added.

During a recent questions and answers, the now 44-year-old Culkin recalled the scene where bandits had his character up against a door, where Pesci’s Harry threatened to bite off Kevin’s finger.

“He was trying to scare me,” he said My girl star revoked. “He said I was going to be threatening to this kid. I saw his face — and I’ve never, ever seen Joe Pesci actually scared. Because he’s like, I just begged a kid!”

Joe Pesci accidentally bit Macaulay Culkin's finger while filming 'Home Alone'
Joe Pesci accidentally bit Macaulay Culkin’s finger while filming ‘Home Alone’ (20th Century Studios)

Culkin was just 10 years old when he starred opposite Pesci and Stern in the first Alone at home . The trio later returned for its 1992 sequel, Lost in New York.

In 2022, Pesci recalled that he limited his interactions with Culkin on set 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 come across on screen that we were friendly in any way.”

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

Still, he remembered Culkin as being a “really sweet kid and, even at his age, very professional.”

Earlier this month, the actors who played Kevin’s siblings and cousins ​​reunited 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 and seeing trash! You better get out there and stop me!!!” parrot Macaulay’s character.

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