"Home Alone" left a mark on Macaulay Culkin - literally!
Macaulay Culkin spoke at "A Nostalgic Night with Macaulay Culkin," which celebrated the 35th anniversary of "Home Alone" on Saturday, Nov. 22 at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center in Long Beach, CA.
During a Q&A, Culkin revealed that his co-star, Joe Pesci, bit him "during rehearsal" and he has a scar from it to this day.
"He bit me during rehearsal. So, we're rehearsing -- the thing you have to remember also, I'm not really on screen with Joe and Dan [Stern] a lot of the movie. They're off doing everything," he said.
Culkin continued, "So I didn't really know him all that well. And so this is one of the last days of filming and I'm hung up there, so vulnerable -- nine, not just a regular nine-year-old and he goes to Dan, 'Dan you want to run lines?' So, he even asked me, I was like, 'Yeah sure, because I don't have any lines in that scene."
The scene they're referencing is near the end of the holiday classic, where Pesci, playing the burglar Harry, threatens to bite off Kevin (played by Culkin's) fingers.
"He said, 'I'm [going to bite] these fingers off one at a time,' and then sank his teeth into my finger. I was like 'ahhh!' like at a kid and you should have seen his face because he took this tough guy and was like 'oooh,' because he knew he bit a nine-year-old. A nine-year-old coworker," Culkin said, adding, "Get HR involved."
He continued: "He was just like, 'Sorry,' and I was like, 'Oh yeah, just don't do it again.' So yeah, it actually left a mark. It's 35 years later, I still have this little divot right there. This is Joey Baby's tooth. Not the gold one. The regular one -- So yeah, he gave me a souvenir. It's a nice story to regale you guys with. It's worth it now, but back then it was just like who is this creep? I've never seen 'Raging Bull' at that point."
When Culkin was asked if he had ever thought about any revenge on Pesci for biting his finger, he said, "You know what? I kinda have. He plays golf with a neighbor of mine, and he was always talking, 'Joey's coming over.' I'm like, 'Yeah, yeah,' said, 'You guys should just come over, ring my doorbell and it'll be fine, be fine.'"
That's when he added, "I want my kids to set up traps for him. They're only really into that -- you ever show kids this movie, next thing you know the next extra month, all they do set traps for you? I get [that] reported back to me all the time. My kids are starting to do that now, too."