Home Alone star reveals he racked up huge bar bill on Donald Trump’s tab during filming

Daniel Stern has recalled the time he and members of the Home Alone2 film crew racked up a $7,000 bill on Donald Trump’s tab.

The former US president and then-real estate mogul made a cameo in the 1992 sequel, which follows eight-year-old Kevin McCallister’s (Macaulay Culkin) adventures after he accidentally boards a flight to New York instead of Miami, where his family is staying over Christmas.

Kevin decides to stay at the Plaza Hotel, which was owned by Trump at the time. It’s there he encounters the businessman and asks him for directions.

Stern, best known for his role as hapless criminal Marv in Home Alone and the sequel, told ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Tuesday (28 May): “I had met [Trump] that day on the shoot and that night, me and the stunt guys and some crew guys were at the hotel bar and Mr Trump walked through.

“He pointed and was very appreciative and said ‘Drinks are on me’ and so we bought drinks for the entire bar, for the entire night. We hit him pretty good on the bill.

“Liam, my stunt guy, we figured it was about 7,000 bucks, which is a drop in the bucket to the man and he felt good about it, we felt good about it so that was a win-win.”

In a recent interview with Business Insider, Home Alone 2 director Chris Columbus explained that he decided to keep in the scene with Trump because the audience at the first screening of the movie “cheered” when they saw Trump show up.

Columbus explained that Trump came to be involved in the movie when the crew approached the Plaza Hotel, which Trump owned at the time, to ask for filming permission. However, Trump refused to let the crew film there unless they gave him a small role in the film.

This wasn’t the first time Trump had used his ownership of the Plaza