One of my favorite Hollywood anecdotes is the story of “pretend casting.” And recently, the actor John Mulaney shared a preview of a simulation for one of the best Christmas movies of all time. According to the Big mouth star, he was offered the chance to audition for Alone at home when I was a child, which makes me look at the main character of the film in a new light. And if the Baby J the performer had taken on the role of the precocious Kevin McCallister, 8 years old? This would certainly have changed one of the best movies of the 1990s.

The actor recently told in an interview with GQ for the media Actually me series that in 1989, at the age of seven, he was part of a local children’s improv group called The Rugrats, and he caught the attention of someone involved in the casting Alone at home. This led to an invitation for him and his parents to consider auditioning. As the tribune-up comic hilariously recalled: