Matt Damon reveals Trump’s cameo in Home Alone 2 forced

Donald Trump’s cameo in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York was not intended to appear in the movie. 

Matt Damon, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, revealed a strange demand Trump had for when a film wanted to use one of his buildings; he had to have a part written in for him.   

‘[Director] Martin Brest had to write something in Scent of a Woman — and the whole crew was in on it,’ he said. 

‘[Director] Martin Brest had to write something in Scent of a Woman — and the whole crew was in on it,’ he said

‘You have to waste an hour of your day with a b******t shot: Donald Trump walks in and Al Pacino’s like, “Hello, Mr. Trump!” — you had to call him by name — and then he exits.

‘You waste a little time so that you can get the permit, and then you can cut the scene out. But I guess in Home Alone 2 they left it in.’

The 46-year-old actor stars in George Clooney’s Suburbicon, which is based off the real-life story of violent racial discrimination a Black family was subjected to when they moved to an all-white Pennsylvania neighborhood in the late 1950s. 

‘You have to waste an hour of your day with a b******t shot: Donald Trump walks in and Al Pacino’s like, “Hello, Mr. Trump!” — you had to call him by name — and then he exits,’ he added. ‘You waste a little time so that you can get the permit, and then you can cut the scene out. But I guess in Home Alone 2 they left it in’

The 46-year-old actor stars in George Clooney’s Suburbicon, which is based off the real-life story of violent racial discrimination a Black family was subjected to when they moved to an all-white Pennsylvania neighborhood in the late 1950s

A film, Damon notes, is crucial during recent events in Charlottesville. 

 ‘A lot of people, myself included, are really waking up to the extent of the existing racism,’ Damon added. 

‘A lot of people, myself included, are really waking up to the extent of the existing racism,’ Damon said about how the film is relevant in the time of Charlottesville

‘And it’s so much worse than I naively thought. I just feel naïve at this point. It was shocking to see those kids — they looked 20 and 30 years old — in button-down shirts, with Tiki torches, walking down the street. I thought, “Those people are a lot younger than me. Who raised them?”

‘Again, I naively thought that, behind our generation, [another one] was coming with more awareness and inclusiveness, and that everything was getting better with each generation. 

And to see these young, aggrieved, white boys walking with their torches and screaming “Jews will not replace us!” It was just shocking. Then the night that the President [made his] “many sides” comment was absolutely abhorrent. Sadly, I feel the movie was made at the right time.’

But Damon did note Jimmy Kimmel’s comment regarding the violent protest to be one of the best. 

Damon said: ‘When he said that Trump said there were fine people on both sides, and showed the clip of the guys screaming “Jews will not replace us,” and cut back to Jimmy saying: “Let’s get something straight. If you’re with a group of people chanting ‘Jews will not replace us’ and you don’t immediately leave that group, you are not a fine person.”‘

Suburbicon hits theaters on October 27.