Home Alone star struggled to say a line to Macaulay Culkin as it was so ‘terrifying’ – Film

Look, I’m happy to say it first: they just don’t make festive movies like they used to.

The older Christmas movies from ‘back in our day’ are the best and I bet you’ll agree that’s a fact.

i mean there is ElfHow the Grinch Stole Christmas, Santa Claus, Love actually… should I continue? Oh, and don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten, of course I’m including it Alone at home movies in that mix.

But while we all have our own favorite moments and unforgettable pieces from each one, of Alone at home stars struggled to say a line to Macaulay Culkin as it was so ‘terrifying’.

Catherine O’Hara played mother Kate McCallister in the 90s classic and reunited with the one-time child star who played the lead, Kevin, last December.

While talking about the actor during his unveiling of his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, she recalled the moment from the legendary Christmas movie.

Now, as we all know, the story follows the idea of ​​young Kevin being left behind by his family when they go on vacation.

O’Hara and Culkin reunited last December. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

And the night before, when they leave for Paris, he falls out with them all, being sent to bed by his mother as she doesn’t want to see him ‘for the rest of the night’.

He replies bluntly, “I don’t want to see you again for the rest of my life, and I don’t want to see anyone else either.”

With his mother snapping back: “I hope you don’t mean that – you’d feel pretty sad if you woke up tomorrow and didn’t have a family.”

But O’Hara revealed that she found filming quite difficult.

O’Hara and Culkin in Home Alone. (20th Century Fox)

“The scene where I had to drag him upstairs to sleep in the attic because he’d been misbehaving, he’s talking about the family and I’m like, ‘Well, you’d be pretty upset if you woke up tomorrow early and you had no family,’ and he says, ‘No, I wouldn’t.’ And I had to say, ‘Say that again – maybe it will happen,'” she recalled.

“I can’t tell you how much it killed me – I couldn’t wrap my head around saying something so horrible to this beautiful child.”

O’Hara then said, “Obviously I wasn’t a mother at the time, and I had no idea what would come out of my own mouth with my own two sons.”

She went on to praise Culkin’s work in both the film and ever since, crediting his ‘perfect performance’ for giving us ‘the little boy on an extraordinary adventure.’