'Home Alone' director Chris Columbus explains how Macaulay Culkin's early stardom affected his approach to casting 'Harry Potter.'
"I can't have go home to a really sort of shaky environment for the sake of a film. It's not worth it," the filmmaker said.became a huge star, and that was unexpected. It's not like Harry Potter, where you know that it may be extraordinarily successful," Columbus said in an interview withColumbus said that he's seen the overwhelming pressure of child stardom firsthand.
"I had to put blinders on because that's all I was hearing everywhere," Columbus remembered. "You go on the street, you go into a pub, you go anywhere, and people are saying, 'Who are you gonna cast? Who's gonna be Harry Potter, who's gonna be Harry Potter?' And that, you take that information and you bring it back to the actor and the actor's parents: 'This is gonna get pretty intense.
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