Chris Columbus called Donald Trump’s coming in “Home alone 2” a curse and joked that if he cut the scene now, Trump would probably make him deported.
The director told us Chronicle That the moment when the real estate mycon gives directions to lost Tyke Macaulay Culkin at the Plaza Hotel is “an albatross” and that he wishes “it was gone.”
“I can’t cut it,” he told the San Francisco paper. “If I cut it, I will probably be sent out of the country. I will be considered not suitable to live in the United States, so I have to go back to Italy or something,” he said, referring to Trump’s latest wave of deportations.
“Year later it has become this curse … It has become an albatross for me. I just wish it was gone,” he continued.
By 2020, Columbus said that Trump, who owned the Plaza Hotel at that time, “bullied” into the film. “We paid the fee (to film the hotel), but he also said:” The only way you can use the square is if I’m in the movie. “So we agreed to put him in the movie, Columbus said Business Insider.
Columbus was thinking of cutting the scene until people at the first screening applauded Trump’s appearance. “So I said to my editor:“ Leave him in the movie. It’s a moment for the audience. “
In 2023, however, Trump insisted that Columbus had “asked” him to be in the movie. “I was very busy and didn’t want to,” Trump wrote on truth social. “They were very nice, but above all, persistent. I agreed to it, and the rest is history!”
Trump went on to say that the Columbus claim that “bullied” him to be in comedy was untrue. “It came to help make the movie a success … just another Hollywood guy from the past and was looking for a quick fix of Trump -Public for himself!” He then wrote.
