Daniel Stern has shared a bombshell about one of his most iconic films, after stepping away from Hollywood.
Home Alone and Home Alone 2 are still iconic Christmas movies that are festive favourites every year around the holiday season.
The first movie in the franchise was released 34 years ago, but still fans can fondly remember the hapless burglars who appeared in the franchise.
However, the 67-year-old – who played burglar Marv alongside Joe Pesci’s Harry – isn’t quite one of them.
In fact, in a new interview about his life away from the spotlight, Daniel revealed that he has only really watched Home Alone once, at the premiere in 1990.
‘I’ve seen clips. I’ve seen it pop up. Or they have highlights when you turn on the TV, I turn on the TV and there I am falling on the toys or something,’ he told People Magazine. ‘But yeah, I mean, what, am I going to hunker down and watch me?
‘I love the movie. It’s tremendous. I know the script inside and out.’
‘Once I’m done with them, they’re not dead … Creatively, they’re done,’ he said of his stance on movie projects. ‘I need to go to the next one. My head is totally forward on the next thing I’m making.
‘I did it. I shot it. I know it. The script was good. That scene went that way. And I’ll see it once and go, yeah, that was good… I just go forward.’
Joe and Daniel famously played Harry and Marv, the burglars who were outwitted by 10-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin), and suffered the awful consequences of trying to thieve from a booby-trapped house.
Both actors went on to appear in several Hollywood movies after the release of the films, but Daniel had a complete change of career – which he has documented online and with fans.
Daniel is now a sculptor and shares his work online with fans. He also owns a cattle ranch and has shared videos of the cows on his fields and the orange juice he makes from tangerines grown on his property.
Lifting the lid on his decision to step away from Hollywood, he told the outlet: ‘I made enough money that I didn’t have to work. I made enough money and I’m frugal … I bought the house in cash. I bought the cars in cash. I bought everything straight up because as an artist, I never knew if [I was] going to make any more bread.
‘What am I going to do with it? Am I going to keep chasing another part or that?’
The actor revealed sent fans into a spin when he revealed the dramatic career change, showing off an art piece on social media recently.
‘I thought I would share a moment of a work in-progress video…this is a video of a dancer I’m making,’ he told viewers, before proudly unveiling a stunning bust of a female dancer as he explained his process.
In another clip, he shared that he was growing tangerines: ‘Hello, as you have come to discover, I live on a farm and we grow tangerines here.
‘They came and picked them the other day and I like to have them pick me a bin and then I juice them up, and then I freeze them and give them away to my friends.
‘I just wanted to show you what is it like, here are our tangerines, there is my bucket.’
Fans loved this discovery and were delighted to see what the star was up to – joking that they were glad he wasn’t up to a life of crime like Marv.
‘I’m glad Marv changed career paths 😁,’ joked user3679063304402.
‘MARV! What the hell are you doing on a tangerine farm? (in my best Harry voice),’ said witchywellnesschick on TikTok.
‘Damn. Marv got a farm and a Chevy. He’s my hero now 😂,’ said awright0912,
‘The fact that it’s a week before Christmas and Marv just popped up on my fyp… 😂❤️💚,’ said christinajulian_91.
Just a few weeks ago, Macaulay Culkin revealed that he had nearly purchased the iconic house that was featured in the first movie.
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The five-bedroom, six-bathroom property, is located in the Winnetka area of Chicago, Illinois, and was actually used as the exterior for the film – and the 1992 sequel.
‘I had half a mind to buy it – just for giggles,’ Culkin told the audience at Illinois’ Rosemont Theater during a screening of the movie, reported The New York Times.
The actor reportedly said that he imagined turning it into a movie fun house where you can sledge down the stairs as his character does in the first film but decided against it.
‘I got kids. I’m busy, man,’ he told audience members.
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