It’s not worth it," the filmmaker said.
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Columbus said that he’s seen the overwhelming pressure of child stardom firsthand.
“I had to put blinders on because that’s all I was hearing everywhere,” Columbus remembered.
Chris Columbus in 2022.Sean Zanni/Getty
Who’s gonna be Harry Potter, who’s gonna be Harry Potter?'
“That’s the rest of your life as a child star,” Columbus said.
The director said that he wasn’t particularly clued into Culkin’s home life while they shotHome Alone.
Daniel Radcliffe on the set of ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’.Everett
“Once we wrapped, I didn’t know what was going on [with Culkin].”
The stories are hair-raising.
I was casting a kid who truly had a troubled family life."
Macaulay Culkin in ‘Home Alone’.Everett Collection
It’s not worth it.
It was as important to cast the parents as it was to cast the kids."
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Lovato famously had her own difficult experiences with child stardom.
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