And as much as we all still feel traumatized by that swarm of bees who—three-decade-old spoiler alert!—killed Thomas J. and crushed our childhood spirits, we’re here to deliver another blow: Culkin was not so into kissing his girl.
Well, we guess you’d say, what could make him feel this way? Puberty, apparently.
“I did not want to do that,” he revealed during a 2018 appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, adding of Chlumsky. “We got along, but I was like… ‘Ew, a girl! I have to kiss a girl?'”
As for the girl in question, she’d like to be excluded from the narrative entirely. Asked if she ever gets sick of talking about the ’90s flick, she told Elle in 2022, “Yes. Unequivocally. You ever get sick of talking about that recital you did when you were 10?”
Which stings a bit, but at least we’ve got these tales from the making of the film—marking its 33rd anniversary Nov. 27—to bring us sunshine on a cloudy day.
