Catherine O'Hara Speech at Macaulay Culkin Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Ceremony

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00:00 (chimes tinkling)

00:03 - Not only forgetful, but probably taught a masterclass

00:06 in how to be a horrible parent.

00:08 Forgetful mother in the iconic Home Alone series,

00:14 please help me welcome to the stage, Catherine O'Hara.

00:18 (audience cheering)

00:21 - Oh, thank you.

00:25 I didn't know.

00:26 - Oh, thanks, Mama.

00:27 - Oh, darling baby.

00:29 (laughing)

00:31 I didn't know you were gonna have to stand here

00:32 and listen to this.

00:33 - I know, me too.

00:34 - They should give you a chair.

00:35 - I know, right?

00:35 - A chair for the van.

00:36 - I'm just like, the sun's not on me.

00:38 - Okay, smart.

00:39 Well, I have a little speech to make about you.

00:42 - Yeah, yeah, I'll look.

00:43 - Pretend you're not here.

00:45 (laughing)

00:46 After Home Alone opened, I went to see it

00:50 at a Saturday matinee in a theater

00:53 packed with shiny, happy children and their parents,

00:56 and it was thrilling for all of us.

00:58 But at one point, I saw two boys get up out of their seats,

01:00 so not wanting to leave the movie,

01:03 but after having already sucked back their giant sodas,

01:06 they really had to go.

01:07 So they started running up the aisle,

01:09 then suddenly panicked that they might miss something great.

01:11 They turned around, looked back at the screen,

01:13 and one of them said, "It's okay, no, it's just a mom."

01:16 And they kept running.

01:19 I say, "Bright boys, bright boys, Home Alone was, is,

01:24 "and always will be a global,

01:26 "a beloved global sensation."

01:29 The reason, the reason it's that,

01:31 the reason families all over the world

01:33 can't let a year go by without watching

01:36 and loving Home Alone together,

01:39 it's because of Macaulay Culkin.

01:41 Yes.

01:42 (audience cheering)

01:44 Yes, he had a most excellent script

01:46 and a wonderful director,

01:48 but it is Macaulay's perfect performance

01:51 as Kevin McAllister that gave us that

01:56 little every boy on an extraordinary adventure.

02:00 I know you worked really hard, I know you did,

02:02 but you made acting look like the most natural thing

02:05 in the world to do.

02:06 It really was as if we had ambushed the home

02:08 of this real little boy named Kevin to make a movie,

02:12 and he just went along with it for the fun of it.

02:14 He's the dearest thing.

02:17 Okay, oh, oh, the scene where I had to drag him upstairs

02:22 to sleep in the attic because he'd misbehaved,

02:25 and he says, you know, he's mouthing off about the family,

02:29 and I say, "Well, you'd be pretty sad

02:31 "if you woke up tomorrow morning and you had no family."

02:34 And he said, "No, I wouldn't."

02:37 And I was supposed to say,

02:38 "Then say it again, maybe it'll happen."

02:42 And I can't tell you how much that killed me.

02:44 I could not wrap my head around saying something

02:47 so horrific to this beautiful child.

02:51 Of course, I was not yet a mother at the time,

02:53 and I had no idea the kind of things

02:54 that would come out of my mouth with my own two sons.

02:57 (audience laughing)

03:00 Macaulay, a 10-year-old boy,

03:04 this beautiful, dear little 10-year-old boy

03:07 was called a superstar, a moneymaker,

03:10 one of the hottest leading young men in Hollywood

03:14 by the world over.

03:17 How does anyone survive that?

03:19 Well, I believe you'd have to possess a certain quality,

03:22 a gift that dear John Hughes obviously recognized in you,

03:26 Macaulay, your sense of humor.

03:28 It's a sign of intelligence in a child

03:31 and a key to surviving life at any age.

03:33 And you have, from what I see,

03:37 you have brought that sense of sweet, yet twisted,

03:41 yet totally relatable sense of humor

03:44 to everything that you have chosen to do since "Home Alone."

03:47 Macaulay, congratulations, you so deserve your star

03:52 of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

03:53 And thank you for including me, your fake mom

03:55 who left you "Home Alone" not once, but twice,

03:58 to share in this happy occasion.

04:00 I'm so proud of you.

04:02 God bless you.

04:03 (audience applauding)

04:06 - Thank you.

04:09 (laughing)

04:18 (whooshing)

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