“In order to avoid appearing onscreen, we would have to crawl around the window line from room to room.” Macaulay Culkin and younger brother.
Kieran spent a lot of time inside, and the residence often housed crew and cast during downtime. “When they weren’t filming their scenes, they would hang out in the house,” Abendshein said.
“Macaulay Culkin used my room to study with his tutor and his brother [Kieran], wasn’t filming as much, so he would just hang out in my room.”
The Abendshien family praised the movie’s success, saying it was “something special,” but they were unable to predict its current level of popularity.
“It was very surreal when the movie came out and all of a sudden it’s holiday season in 1990 and it was an endless row of cars and people wanted.