Macaulay Culkin, 45, recalled what it was like to film his character’s heart-wrenching death scene in My Girl at 10 years old. Culkin played Thomas J in the classic 1991 film, in which the character dies after an attack by bees. Culkin said on the On Film … with Kevin McCarthy podcast that he had to get up close and personal with the bees to shoot the scene. “They actually released thousands of bees on me, imagine that! I’m not joking, those are real bees,” he said. “The way they did that, they wouldn’t do that today… They put this stuff on my fingertips that smells like the queen bee so [the bees] were actually attracted to my hands and I wasn’t a threat.” He continued, “They just told me to wave my hands in front of my face so the bees can get in front of my face, and it looks good for the camera… As soon as they yelled ‘cut,’ I had to soap my hands in hot water and then dart into the woods.” My Girl also starred Anna Chlumsky, Dan Aykroyd, and Jamie Lee Curtis.
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