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Home Alone star reveals lie he told Trump’s ex-wife: ‘I loathed it’

Donald Trump's cameo in lobby scene in Home Alone 2
  • British actor Tim Curry, who played the concierge in 'Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,' recalled lying to Donald Trump’s ex-wife Ivana during the film's production.
  • Since a significant portion of the film was shot at the Plaza Hotel, then owned by Trump, the cast and crew stayed there during filming.
  • Curry recalled having to lie to Ivana, the Plaza Hotel's president, about her interior design choices.
  • “She knocked on my door and said, ‘Are you happy in your room? Do you like the way it looks?’ And I loathed it actually,” he said in a recent interview.
  • Director Chris Columbus has described Donald Trump's cameo in the 1992 sequel as a “curse” and an “albatross,” saying, “I just wish it was gone.”
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