Home Alone 2 director Chris Columbus says Donald Trump was never supposed to be in the movie.
In a new interview with Business Insider, Columbus says Trump agreed for Home Alone 2: Lost In New York to be filmed in his Plaza Hotel but only if he featured in the movie.
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“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,” he shared.
Trump also reportedly used his ownership of the Plaza Hotel to get a small film cameo in the 1992 film Scent of a Woman…that scene did not make the final cut.
