Home Alone star Daniel Stern once cost Donald Trump a pretty penny. When Stern was filming the 1992 sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, the actor recalled a specific experience when he and crew members were having a drink in the Oak Room at the Plaza Hotel in New York City . While the group were enjoying their vices, Trump, who owned the hotel at the time, strode in and insisted on covering the bill.
John Candy was paid a tiny sum of money for his Home Alone cameo Home Alone star shares on the fictional McCallister family had so much money “Donald spotted us and proclaimed so everyone could hear that he would be picking up the tab at our table,” Stern wrote in new memoir, Home and Alone. The actor and his pals surely took advantage of the opportunity, as they ordered drinks “until there was no more booze left in that bar” and bought “round after round of drinks for the entire bar” until it closed at 4 a.m.
As for the number on the tab, Stern estimates that he and the crew racked up a whopping seven grand. “We still feel really good about that,” Stern wrote. Read more: Home Alone fans struggle to recognize child star 30 years on from iconic movie Trump played a part in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York in more ways than one.
He also had a now-famous cameo in the movie, where he gives the lead character Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) directions at the lavish Plaza Hotel. “[Trump’s] real contribution was letting us film there, lending the luster of the P.