Tim Curry’s Awkward Encounter With Donald And Ivana Trump On The Set Of Home Alone 2

British actor Tim Curry once recalled an awkward question from Ivana Trump while staying at the then Donald Trump-owned Plaza Hotel during the filming of the 1992 Christmas classic Home Alone 2: Lost In New York, in which the future US leader made a cameo.

In an nterview with The Guardian published earlier this week, Tim said that Ivana, who died in 2022 at the age of 73, asked his opinion of the property’s decor. She had overseen its lavish remodeling.

“She knocked on my door and said, ‘Are you happy in your room? Do you like the way it looks?’” recalled Tim. “And I loathed it actually.”

Read the full interview at The Guardian.

Tim, who passed away at the age of 80, played the Plaza’s concierge in the movie sequel.

In the same interview promoting his memoir Vagabond, which he penned after being left partially paralysed following a severe stroke in 2012, the actor also remembered Donald Trump himself being “very anxious” to get his then-girlfriend Marla Maples (he’d split from Ivana) an introduction to the film’s director, Chris Columbus.

The Rocky Horror star said: “He told me, ‘I’ve got to get Marla to meet Chris Columbus because she’s a brilliant actress.’ And I thought: ‘Yeah, I’m sure.’”

In Trump’s brief cameo, Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin McCallister ask him for directions to the lobby. Columbus has claimed Trump’s appearance was a condition of filming at the Plaza.

Trump, though, has insisted the filmmakers were “begging me to make a cameo” and he agreed despite being “very busy” and not really wanting to.

Macaulay Culkin has said he’d be happy if Trump’s scene were to be cut, but Columbus has joked that doing so would spark national outrage: “If I cut it, I’ll probably be sent out of the country.”