The Donald Trump scene in the movie “Alone Home 2” could be deleted. The director is afraid that the decision could lead to his deportation
Chris Columbus, the director of the movie “Alone at home 2: Lost in New York,” says he has come to “a curse” the scene in which Donald Trump appears with Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) and wants to delete it.
The sequence with Macaulay Culkin and Donald Trump from the movie “Alone Home 2” Photo: Profimedia
Trump's short appearance in the film is seen by the director as “an albatros” he wants to remove. However, he is afraid that the president's administration would deport him if he continued with the idea of giving up the 33-year-old scene.
“Became a curse“, Columbus said in an interview published on Monday, April 14, for San Francisco Chronicle, according to News.ro.”He became a Albatros for me. I would just like to disappear“He added.
Although he was born and grew up in the US, Chris Columbus, who has Italian origins, said he was afraid that “will have to return to Italy or something“If he will delete the sequence. His comment alludes to important deportation cases pursued by the White House.
The Resurge claims that Trump “made his film by intimidation”
The comments of Columbus, made before a tribute to which he is to receive at the 68th edition of the International Film Festival in San Francisco, on April 26, returned to a controversy in 2020, towards the end of Trump's first president.
The director of the first two films “Home Alone” (“alone at home”) told Business Insider that Trump's scene in the 1992 Sequel was a condition to film inside the Plaza hotel in New York, which Trump had at that time. Trump, known at that time as a magnate in real estate, “He made his way into the film by intimidating“, Columbus told the quoted source. He claimed that Trump said to him:”The only way you can use Plaza is if I appear in the movie”.
Donald Trump accused Columbus of Lying
At the end of 2023, less than a year before he became president for the second time, Trump accused Columbus of a lie on Social. He said that Columbus's team “begged” him to make a “cameo” (a brief appearance no) and that he ended up being “great for the movie”.
Columbus did not immediately respond to Trump's statements. However, in the interview on Monday, the director wanted to say: “I'm not lying. There is no world in which I would ever beg for a non-player to be in a movie. But we were desperate to get the Plaza hotel”.
According to Columbus, his instinct was to eliminate the scene and regrets to change his mind after the spectators present at a Chicago projection “they applauded … and applauded and … they considered it hilarious”.
“I never thought it would be considered hilarious“Said Columbus, referring to the seven-second scene in which Trump gives directions to Macaulay Culkin's character on the Plaza hotel.” He became this I would like … not to be there, “he said.
The idea of eliminating Trump from “Home Alone” has been tested in the past. Trump's supporters complained in 2019 when a film installation designed on Canadian television eliminated its appearance.
