Posted on 12/28/2023 10:57:24 AM PST by simpson96
Former President Donald Trump criticized the director of the 1992 Christmas movie Home Alone 2: Lost in New York for claiming that Trump bullied his way onto the set.
Before Trump was president, he was a well-known New York City real estate power player who made special appearances in iconic '90s TV shows and movies set in the Big Apple, from a cameo with Samantha Jones in Season 2 of Sex and the City to a run-in with Kevin McCallister in Home Alone 2.
Chris Columbus, the movie's director, said that Trump's cameo in the movie was not initially the director's decision. He said that in order to shoot in the lobby of The Plaza Hotel, where part of the movie is filmed, Trump, who owned the hotel at the time, requested that he be in the movie.
Trump later claimed, however, that it was Columbus who was "begging me to make a cameo" in the movie.
In an interview with Business Insider posted on Saturday, Columbus said that those involved in the movie not only had to pay a fee to use the location, but Trump "also said, 'The only way you can use the Plaza is if I'm in the movie.'"
"So we agreed to put him in the movie, and when we screened it for the first time the oddest thing happened: People cheered when Trump showed up on-screen. So I said to my editor, 'Leave him in the movie. It's a moment for the audience.' But he did bully his way into the movie," Columbus continued.
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And they could have taken the tiny scene out later if it somehow became less entertaining or something, but they never did, because everyone loved it then and everyone loves it now.
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