The director of “Home Alone” movies says he is afraid he will be expelled from the US if he cuts the scene with Trump and Macaulay Culkin
Macaulay Culkin and Donald Trump in the famous sequence in the movie “Single Home 2”, photo: LMK / IPA / Profimedia Images
American director Chris Columbus says he came to consider Donald Trump's appearance in his movie “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” (alone at home 2: lost in New York) as “a boulder related to the throat” that he would like to remove, but that he fears that the current administration from the White House could only remove it for 30 years ago Guardian.
“It has become a curse,” Columbus told San Francisco Chronicle in an interview published Monday. “He has become a boulder about my neck. I would simply not be there,” he said.
Although he was born and grew up in the US, the director of Italian origins, a resident of San Francisco, said he was afraid to return to Italy or something like “if he was deleting Trump's short appearance. The interview given by him was published on the same day that Donald Trump said he would like to expel American citizens in El Salvador, the central-American country with which Washington has an agreement on the imprisonment of violent criminals.
Columbus's comments, made before a tribute to be brought to the 68th edition of the International Film Festival in San Francisco, bring to attention a controversy in 2020, towards the end of Trump's first presidential term. The director of both movies Home Alone He told the Business Insider at that time that Trump's appearance in the second feature was a condition imposed by him in order to film in the Plaza hotel in New York, which belonged to him at that time.
Trump, then known as real estate magnate, “imposed with force in the film,” Columbus told Business Insider, describing how his appearance in the movie added to a tax already paid. He claimed that Trump said, “The only way you can use the Plaza hotel if I appear in the movie.”
Donald Trump states that he was “begged” to appear in the second movie “Home Alone”
In December 2023, during the period when the films Home Alone They are also redInted in the US around Christmas, Trump wrote about this topic on the SA TRUTH Social Platform and accused Columbus of lying. He said that the team of the director “begged” to accept the emergence of Cameo type and that his presence proved to be “great for the film”.
Columbus chose not to respond immediately to these statements. However, in the interview on Monday, the director wanted to state: “I do not lie … there is no world in which I would pray a person who is not an actor to appear in a movie. But we were desperate to get the Plaza hotel.”
The director also stated that his initial instinct was to eliminate the scene and regrets that he changed his mind after the spectators of a Chicago projection “applauded … and applauded … and they thought he was hilarious.”
“I never imagined that it would be considered hilarious,” said Columbus, referring to the seven-second stage in which Trump gives directions to the character played by Macaulay Culkin inside the Plaza hotel.
The idea of removing it on Trump from Home Alone 2 – a film that received $ 359 million at Box Office and was the third most profitable film of 1992 – has been tested in the past.
Trump's supporters complained in 2019, when a variant of the film broadcast on Canadian television eliminated the sequence with it. Then, at the beginning of 2021, Culkin himself said he was “completely agreed” with the idea of digital to Trump from the movie.
