Home Alone 2 Director Reveals Bizarre Truth About Trump Cameo

As the years roll on, it becomes impossible to watch certain films and TV shows through the lens their directors intended. Sometimes that's because a cameo or a role that seemed like a fun gag at the time takes on a completely different tone. O.J. Simpson's appearances in The Naked Gun franchise spring to mind, as does Seth Macfarlane's work on Star Trek: Enterprise during the years Family Guy was off the air. Sometimes these appearances make you go, "Huh?" while other times you might say, "Hey, look who it is!" And nobody induces both of those responses more than Donald Trump.

His surprising cameo appearance in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York stands out today as basically the only thing anyone remembers clearly about the film. Here's a brief recap: Kevin McCallister, who ends up in New York and on his own for a second time, runs into the celebrity businessman in the halls of the Plaza Hotel.

In a recent interview with Insider, Home Alone 2 director Chris Columbus described the delicate process of getting Trump onto the silver screen. The secret, it seems, lay in wanting to borrow his stuff.

Columbus mentioned that to shoot in most New York City locations, you pay a fee and you're allowed to film there. For Home Alone 2, the production approached the Plaza Hotel, which Trump owned at the time, for permission to shoot some scenes in the lobby.

Columbus further elaborated...

"Trump said OK. We paid the fee, but he 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."

In 2017, Matt Damon relayed a similar account of Trump's cameo clause to The Hollywood Reporter.

According to Damon...

"The deal was that if you wanted to shoot in one of his buildings, you had to write him in a part. [Director] Martin Brest had to write something in Scent of a Woman — and the whole crew was in on it. You have to waste an hour of your day [...] Donald Trump walks in and Al Pacino's like, 'Hello, Mr. Trump!' — you had to call him by name — and then he exits. You waste a little time so that you can get the permit, and then you can cut the scene out. But I guess in Home Alone 2 they left it in." Keep watching the video to see that the Home Alone 2 Director Reveals Bizarre Truth About Trump Cameo.

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