Wait, Did Macaulay Culkin Have a Stunt Double in HOME ALONE?

Published: August 13, 2025

By Mallory Mattingly

HOME ALONE star Macaulay Culkin revealed on Sean Evan’s “Hot Ones” that he did in fact have a stunt double for the holiday classic.

“Is it true that your stunt double was a very short 30-year-old man?” Evans asked Culkin on the show that sees celebs eat spicy wings while answering questions.

“Yeah, his name was Larry [Nicholas], and I saw him in the wardrobe department for the first time,” Culkin answered. “I get changed, and I walk out and there’s this guy, Larry, dressed exactly like me ’cause we’re both trying on the same outfit.”

Culkin said that Nicholas greeted him and asked Culkin how old he thought he was.

“I go, ‘That’s a loaded question.’ I know he’s much older than me ’cause I was 9. So it was loaded,” the actor recalled. “I go, ’13’?”

Culkin was wrong, but Nicholas “thought that was funny.”

Culkin also recalled feeling protective of Nicholas while filming a scene that saw him get crushed by a shelf.

“It was a vicious first take,” Culkin remembered. “They didn’t like the way everything felt, and they do it again…And I’m going, ‘Please take it easy on Larry. He’s only 13 years old.'”

Another HOME ALONE rumor is that Joe Pesci, who played Harry, one of the burglars, decided to keep his distance from Culkin while on set so that the child actor would genuinely be afraid of him.

“That’s what I heard,” Culkin shared. “I can see why he was kind of like, ‘Oh, I want to scare the kid.'”

HOME ALONE follows Culkin’s 8-year-old Kevin McCallister who is “left behind while his family dashes off on a Christmas trip…he is left to defend his family’s home from two bumbling burglars until the relatives return.”

The beloved classic hit theaters on Nov. 16, 1990, launching Culkin’s career.

It’s now a Christmastime staple, but did you know the first draft of the script came together in less than 10 days?

James Hughes, son of screenwriter John Hughes, recalled his dad wrote the script “after traveler’s anxiety sparked the idea for the movie ahead of the family’s first trip to Europe in 1989,” per TIME.

“Two weeks later, after returning home, he revisited the premise: What if one of the kids had been accidentally left behind?” James wrote in 2015. “Over the next nine days, he completed the first draft of HOME ALONE.”

Movieguide® advises caution for HOME ALONE’s light bad language, slight sexual innuendo and slapstick comedy but calls it overall “a delightful movie.”

…HOME ALONE has a strong message of reconciliation and portrays a fairly close-knit family. Furthermore, Kevin appears to be in the habit of attending church. Best of all, Kevin learns from his experience. He learns not to be afraid and to be thankful for his family.

Though Christmas is months away, it’s never too early to get into the holiday spirit, and fun facts about our favorite Christmas movies like HOME ALONE are the perfect way to ease into it.

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