‘Home Alone’ star Daniel Stern scultping statue of iconic scene for…
The Wet Bandits strike again.
“Home Alone” star Daniel Stern has been commissioned to create a statue of his most iconic scene for the new house owners of the home featured in the traditional vacation flick.
“I got a call from the people who own the ‘Home Alone’ house,” Stern, 68, told People during an interview printed Wednesday. “And I’m a sculptor, they asked if I would do a sculpture for the house. So I’m creating a sculpture of me and the spider.”
Daniel Stern at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 9, 2014. Getty Images
Daniel Stern as Marv in a single of his most iconic scenes from “Home Alone.” Disney
“Which is gonna be kind of crazy,” he continued. “So it’ll be at the ‘Home Alone’ house so that spider, whatever his name was, Charlie, is being immortalized in bronze.”
Stern, who was hospitalized following a health scare in October, starred as Marv alongside Joe Pesci’s Harry in “Home Alone” and its 1992 sequel.
The pair called themselves the Wet Bandits and tried to rob the dwelling of Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin McCallister after his household by chance left him dwelling alone in Chicago during a Christmas trip to Paris, France.
However, Kevin units up a sequence of elaborate traps to thwart Harry and Marv’s theft plans – including letting free a tarantula that ultimately lands on Marv’s face in a single of the film’s most iconic scenes.
Joe Pesci, Macaulay Culkin and Daniel Stern featured on the poster for “Home Alone.” ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection
Joe Pesci as Harry, Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister and Daniel Stern as Harry in “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.” ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection
Stern, who has since left Hollywood for a ranch in Ventura, California, to give attention to his artwork, also revealed that the sculpture will likely be his first self-portrait.
“I’ve been looking at myself in my studio, and I’ve made myself a lot handsomer than I actually am in real life,” he shared. “Just why not?”
“It’s been fun though,” the “For All Mankind” star added. “It’s been really fun, and you know it was so sweet to think of it. I mean, it’ll be done in a couple of months, but it’s so sweet to think of it in that house.”
Daniel Stern at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, California, on July 9, 2014. Getty Images
Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern and Roberts Blossom in “Home Alone.”
But while he expects to complete the sculpture someday early next 12 months, Stern doesn’t plan to drop it off himself.
“I’m going to ship it, but they might have like an unveiling or something,” he told the outlet. “It would be crazy to be in [the house.] That house is like a tourist attraction.”
The dwelling, positioned in Winnetka, Illinois, was used for exterior photographs of Chris Columbus’ 1990 vacation traditional.
Macaulay Culkin and Daniel Stern in “Home Alone.” ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection
Daniel Stern as Marv and Joe Pesci as Harry in “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.” ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection
Although a person named John Abendshien lived in the well-known home for more than 20 years, he reportedly offered the property for $1.6 million in 2012.
The home acquired a major makeover in 2018 and was positioned again on the market in May 2024 with an asking value of $5.25 million.
It offered less than one week later for $5.5 million, and project supervisor Scott Price just lately told NBC Chicago that the new house owners plan to launch a large renovation to revive the property to the way it regarded in “Home Alone.”
The Winnetka, Illinois, home used for exterior photographs in “Home Alone.” Airbnb
The “Home Alone” home resold for more than $5 million in 2024.
“Our vision is to bring back the warmth and just the love from the movie,” Prince told the outlet earlier this month. “There [were] so many great colors, and it just made you feel like family and like home, and we want to bring that magic back.”
As for his iconic scene with Charlie the tarantula, Stern revealed that his hilarious screaming response was “an homage to the woman in ‘Psycho’ in the shower.”
The “Whip It” star added that there was a “tarantula trainer” on set to supervise the sequence, although it was unclear how educated the spider really was.
Daniel Stern during the thirty fifth Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Jan. 16, 2020. Getty Images for SBIFF
Daniel Stern as Marv, one half of the West Bandits, in “Home Alone.” ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection
“I’m like, ‘How did you train him?’” Stern recalled. “He said, ‘We can’t really train him,’ and I’m like, ‘OK, well, you know, is he gonna care that I scream at him?’ and he’s like, ‘He can’t hear.’”
“And I’m like ‘OK. Well … Should we take the stinger out?’” the “Home Alone” star continued. “And he said, ‘If we take the stinger out, he’ll die.’ And I said, ‘But if you don’t, then I’ll die.’”
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