By Simon Pierre
Published
April 16, 2025 at 10:12 am,
updated April 16, 2025 at 10:54 am
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In an interview with San Francisco ChronicleChris Columbus returned to the sequence of a few seconds where the current tenant of the White House appears, which he would like to be able to erase.
More than thirty years after the release of Mom, I still missed the plane (Home Alone 2 : Lost in new York), its director Chris Columbus entrusted, Monday, April 14, in an interview with San Francisco Chronicle A tenacious regret: the brief appearance of Donald Trump in the film, who said “A curse”.
“I would like to be able to erase it”, said the American director, returned to this cult scene, where the current tenant of the White House, then real estate magnate, gives a simple indication to the young Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) in the Hall of Plaza Hotel, property of the billionaire.
“When this moment appeared on the screen, the public exploded with laughter. »»
Chris Columbus
In an interview at Insiderin 2020, the director confided that the cameo was originally a requirement by Donald Trump himself to allow filming in his hotel. “We accepted. We screened the film to Chicago, and when this moment appeared on the screen, the public exploded with laughter. They applauded, they found it hilarious. I thought that I knew myself as a comedy, but obviously no, since I would never have imagined that this scene would be perceived as comic ”, tells the director at San Francisco Chronicle.
A version of the facts challenged by the American president in 2023, on the Truth Social network: “It’s completely false. I didn’t have time and I didn’t want to do it ”he said. Before clarifying that his short presence in the film emanated from a request from the director. “He says that I begged him to appear in the film. But I would never beg a non-actor to play in one of my films ”replied Chris Columbus always at San Francisco Chronicle.
Anyway, since Donald Trump’s political ascent this scene seems to make the public laugh, which regularly points it to or mourn it. So much so that some fans are demanding today its outright withdrawal in the new editions of the film. A vow difficult to grant, for the filmmaker who fears the consequences. “I can’t cut it, San Francisco’s resident said with sarcasm. If I cut it, I would probably be expelled from the country. We will consider that I am not able to live in the United States, and I should therefore return to Italy or elsewhere ”.
