Home Alone star says one line was so ‘horrific’ she struggled to say it to Macaulay Culkin
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‘I could not wrap my head around saying something so horrific,’ actor said during reunion. Home Alone actor Catherine O’Hara has revealed she struggled to deliver one of the Christmas film’s lines to Macaulay Culkin. The actor, who has reunited with the former child star, appeared in the 1990 festive film, playing Kate McCallister, the mother of Culkin’s Kevin.
In the John Hughes-written film, which was directed by Chris Columbus, Kevin is left behind at home when his family go on holiday for Christmas. At one stage near the beginning, Kevin falls out with his family the night before they’re leaving for Paris.
When his mum sends him up to the attic to sleep as punishment, she says she doesn’t want to see him “for the rest of the night”, to which Kevin replies: “I don’t want to see you again for the rest of my life, and I don’t want to see anybody else, either.”.
Here, his mum says: “I hope you don’t mean that – you’d feel pretty sad if you woke up tomorrow morning and you didn’t have a family.”. According to O’Hara, though, she struggled deeply with the line that followed. The Schitt’s Creek star revealed this detail while delivering a speech about Culkin at a ceremony unveiling his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in December 2023.
“The scene where I had to drag him upstairs to sleep in the attic ‘cause he’d misbehaved, he’s mouthing off about the family and I say, ‘Well, you’d be pretty sad if you woke up tomorrow morning and you had no family,’ and he says, ‘No, I wouldn’t.’ And I was supposed to say, ‘Then say it again - maybe it’ll happen.’.
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