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- Macaulay Culkin confirms 'Home Alone' rumors, including 'very short' stunt double</p>
<p>Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY August 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM</p>
<p>"Home Alone" star Macaulay Culkin is verifying a long-running fan rumor about the children's holiday classic.</p>
<p>In between eating spicy wings alongside "Hot Ones" host Sean Evans, Culkin, 44, confirmed that his stunt double in the 1990 movie was a "very short" 30-year-old man named Larry Nicholas. The notoriously elusive child star visited Evans' show on the Thursday, Aug. 7, episode to participate in a now time-honored celebrity tradition: Stars eat increasingly hot wings while answering personal questions.</p>
<p>"Is it true that your stunt double was a very short 30-year-old man?" Evans, 39, asked.</p>
<p>"Yeah, his name was Larry, and I saw him in the wardrobe department for the first time," Culkin replied. "I get changed and I walk out and there's this guy, Larry, dressed exactly like me 'cause we're both trying on the same outfit."</p>
<p>Culkin said he greeted Nicholas, who asked how old he thought he was.</p>
<p>"I go, 'That's a loaded question.' I know he's much older than me 'cause I was 9. So it was loaded," the actor said. "I go, '13'?"</p>
<p>Needless to say, the guess was wrong, but Culkin said there was no bad blood. "He thought that was funny," the actor added. The movie, which has since become a holiday season staple with its slapstick comedy, launched Culkin into a singular kind of fame. Followed two years later by a much-beloved sequel, the film franchise featured major stars like Joe Pesci, Catherine O'Hara and even President Donald Trump.</p>
<p>Culkin, who has since returned to the screen on the HBO show "The Righteous Gemstones," told Evans that he later grew protective of Nicholas.</p>
<p>Macaulay Culkin attends the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 2, 2025, in Beverly Hills, California.</p>
<p>He recalled a scene they tried to shoot in which Nicholas was being crushed by a shelf. "It was a vicious first take," he said. "They didn't like the way everything felt, and they do it again … And I'm going, 'Please take it easy on Larry. He's only 13 years old.'"</p>
<p>Culkin went on to confirm another rumor that Pesci, who played a burglar in the film, kept his distance while they were shooting to ensure the child star would remain authentically afraid of him.</p>
<p>"That's what I heard," Culkin said. "I can see why he was kind of like, 'Oh, I want to scare the kid.'"</p>
<p>This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Macaulay Culkin 'Home Alone' stunt double was Larry Nicholas</p>
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