The public has wondered for years how the family of “They forgot about me ” was able to afford his beautiful home in the Chicago area and now we know the answer.
Chris Columbus the film’s director, recently revealed to The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast that he and the late producer John Hughes talked about the story of the parents of the “Home Alone” family, Kate McCallister played by Catherine O’Hara, and Peter McAllister played by John Heard .
“At the time, John and I had a conversation about it, and we decided what professions would be,” Columbus said. Kate “was ua very successful fashion designer “, as suggested by the mannequins in the family’s basement, according to Columbus.
The director added that he was still unsure about Heard’s character. “Dad could have, based on John Hughes’ own experience, worked in advertising, but I don’t remember what Dad did,” Columbus said.
The beloved 1990 Christmas film stars young Macaulay Culkin as a boy named Kevin who accidentally finds himself at home alone during Christmas and has to deal with a pair of thieves.
Hughes passed away at age 59 in 2009 after a heart attack. Heard died in 2017, aged 71, after suffering a cardiac arrest.
Columbus, who recently produced the new horror film “Nosferatu”, also made it clear that the fan theory suggesting that the criminals in the film, played by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern, were lured into robbing the house because the patriarch was involved in the crime, is inaccurate .
“It wasn’t organized crime — even though there was, at the time, a lot of organized crime in Chicago [onde o filme se passa]”, said the director.
The five-bedroom, six-bathroom Georgian-style property in the Chicago suburbs gained attention last year after it was put up for sale by US$5.25 million (around R$32.4 million, in direct conversion, at current values).
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This content was originally published in “Home Alone”: director reveals the origin of Kevin’s family home on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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