Happy Birthday: John Hughes (1950–2009)

John Hughes (1950–2009)

Born: February 18, 1950 in Lansing, Michigan, USA
Died: August 6, 2009 (age 59) in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Married: Nancy Ludwig (1970 – 6 August 2009) (his death) (2 children)

When casting the role of Kevin McCallister in Home Alone (1990), Chris Columbus had already seen Macaulay Culkin in Uncle Buck (1989) but he wanted to audition some other kids while Hughes had his heart set on Culkin. So Columbus met Culkin in New York and was very charmed by him and thought he was fantastic. Columbus auditioned five other kids and none of them shaped up to Culkin. Columbus went with Culkin because he was not as picture perfect and he had an instant relatability to the kids in the audience. Columbus knew the cameras would love him and he was immensely funny.

I stumbled into this business, I didn’t train for it. I yelled “Action!” on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.

I don’t think of kids as a lower form of the human species.

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