Catherine O'Hara reflects on her most chilling "Home Alone" moment
Catherine O'Hara has many remarkable roles to her credit, but she will be remembered mainly as the character from "Beetlejuice" and Kevin's mom from the all-time holiday hit. The actress recently talked about the scene that stuck with her most during the filming of "Home Alone."
"Home Alone" hit theaters at the end of 1990. This modest comedy, with a budget of only 18 million dollars, became the biggest hit of the season, surpassing films such as "Dances with Wolves," "Pretty Woman," and "Total Recall." In the United States alone, it grossed 285 million dollars. However, even then, after such enormous success, no one suspected that Chris Columbus's film would become so significant to many generations of viewers worldwide.
One of the stars of "Home Alone" is Catherine O'Hara, who, in a recent interview, discussed a scene that, due to its particular kind of cruelty, stayed with her the most.
The scene is from the beginning of the film. Kevin causes trouble, and his mom sends him to the attic (beautifully finished, with a big bed) to spend the last night there as punishment before the trip. At that moment, the boy utters the famous line: "I don’t want to see you again for the rest of my life, and I don’t want to see anybody else, either."
"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," his mom warned him.
"I can’t tell you how much that killed me – I could not wrap my head around saying something so horrific to this beautiful child. Of course I was not yet a mother at the time and I had no idea the kind of things would come out of my own mouth with my own two sons," Catherine O'Hara joked at the end.
