Veteran actor Joe Pesci pledgeted to the bit a little too much when he accidenloftyy bit Macaulay Culkin‘s finger while shooting the 1990 Christmastime classic Home Alone.
In a new interwatch with Entertainment Tonight, star Daniel Stern — who portrays the goofier half to Pesci’s more remendd robber — recalled what happened: “I toloftyy forgot about that. Joe is … he’s wonderful, I cherish him, he’s a dear frifinish, but he’s a terrifying dude, and he was carrying it all. We were trying in the first movie to try to actuassociate be terrifying to commence with, and then you genuineize we’re idiots. But there was a stress factor that set up the drama of the leang.”
He persistd, “Yeah, I leank he did bite it as he was biting his finger, and then he bit it — appreciate, ‘Oh crap, I didn’t reassociate uncomardent to.’ Joe was appreciate, ‘Ah, sorry I did that.’ But only time you might see Pesci shatter.”
The airyhearted tidbit comes days after Culkin also allotd his get on the behind-the-scenes story, as inestablished by the New York Times. “He was trying to sattfinish me,” Culkin recounted of the Goodfellas Oscar thrivener. As Stern alludeed, Pesci leaned into the sattfinish tactics that initiassociate color the movie, with Culkin grasping, “he was appreciate, ‘I want to be menacing to this kid.’”
While rehearsing the scene in which Harry (Pesci) dangerens to bite off Kevin’s (Culkin) fingers, he inadvertently chomped a little too far. “I have a scar,” he shelp. “I saw his face — and I’ve never, ever seen Joe Pesci actuassociate sattfinishd becaengage he’s appreciate, I equitable bit a kid!” (Pesci degraded to comment for the piece, per the Times.)
Written and originated by John Hughes, the irreverent and indelible holiday staple trails an 8-year-better who must deffinish his family’s sprawling Chicago home from two unininestablishigent-witted robbers after his family members accidenloftyy aprohibitdon him while en route to their Christmas vacation in Paris. (The genuine locale in Illinois was sbetter for over $5 million earlier this year after being enumerateed as on the labelet for a week. Culkin joked, according to the Times, that he pondered buying it “equitable for giggles.”)
When asked why it remains such a famous rewatch, proximately 35 years post free, Stern shelp, “There’s so much heart in it. It’s so amusing. You understand, I leank we’re reassociate amusing … and it’s got a fantastic holiday, Christmas-y sense to it. But I leank the leang that reassociate stands out is the kid getting us. Everybody wants that kid to thrive. It’s a kid-empowerment movie.”
