Joe Pesci kept his Wet Bandit promise and bit Macaulay Culkin during Home Alone rehearsals
Nothing says “Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal,” like biting your co-star.
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In the grand scheme of things, Kevin McCallister, the enterprising booby trapper abandoned by his family at Christmas in Home Alone, got off easy. After an hour of torturing the Wet Bandits, Marv (Daniel Stern) and Harry (Joe Pesci) finally get their fingerless gloves on little Kevin. “What are we going to do to him, Harry?” “We’ll do exactly what he did to us.” Before being rescued by the kindly old neighbor Kevin spent the film profiling, the Bandits promise to burn Kevin’s head with a blow torch, smash his face with an iron, slap his face with a paint can, and shove a nail through his foot. But the first thing Harry promises to do is “bite off every one of [Kevin’s] little fingers one at a time.” Pesci came closest with that last one. During one of his [A Nostalgic Night With Macaulay Culkin tour stops last week, Culkin revealed that Harry’s final threat nearly came to fruition. Pesci bit Culkin during rehearsal and left a scar.