Daniel Stern Says Owners of the “Home Alone” House Asked Him to Create a Sculpture Immortalizing His Most Iconic Scene (Exclusive)
- - Daniel Stern Says Owners of the “Home Alone” House Asked Him to Create a Sculpture Immortalizing His Most Iconic Scene (Exclusive)
Virginia ChamleeDecember 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Daniel Stern will immortalize his iconic tarantula scene from Home Alone — in bronze
The actor, who played "Wet Bandit" Marv in the film, is now a sculptor
He tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview he was commissioned by the family that owns the house featured in the film to make a piece of art to memorialize it
Home Alone's famous tarantula scene will soon be immortalized and live in the very house featured in the film — thank to the scene's star, actor Daniel Stern.
Speaking to PEOPLE in a recent exclusive interview, Stern — 68 and now an artist and farmer living on a ranch in California — shared that he was commissioned by the family that purchased the Chicago house featured in the film to make a replica of himself and the spider.
"I got a call from the people who own the Home Alone house," Stern tells PEOPLE. "And I'm a sculptor [and] they asked if if I would do a sculpture for the house. So I'm creating a sculpture of me and the spider."
He continues: "Which is gonna be kind of crazy — so it'll be at the Home Alone house so that spider whatever his name was — 'Charlie' — is being immortalized in bronze."
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Daniel Stern & Joe Pesci in Home Alone
Stern says the work of art will be the first self-portrait he's ever created, joking, "I've been looking at myself in my studio and I've made myself a lot handsomer than I actually am in real life — just why not?"
"It's been fun though. It's been really fun and you know it was so sweet to think of it. I mean it'll be done in a couple of months, but it's so sweet to think of it in that house — these folks love that house so much and love the movie so much," Stern says, adding that he hopes to be able to see it on display in person."I'm going to ship it but they might have like an unveiling or something.... it would be crazy to be in [the house.] That house is like a tourist attraction," Stern says.
The house — which was used for exterior shots of the beloved 1990 Christmas classic — is located in Winnetka, Ill., and officially sold over the asking price for $5.5 million, PEOPLE confirmed in January.
The five-bedroom, six-bathroom abode first hit the market with an asking price of $5.25 million in May 2024, and went under contract shortly after it was listed.
Listing agents Dawn McKenna and Katie Moor of Coldwell Banker Realty later confirmed to PEOPLE that the sale was pending in December 2024. News of the listing made national headlines and led to a pending offer after less than a week on the market.
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Stern played one-half of the "Wet Bandits" in the film, which saw he and Joe Pesci posing as criminals who rob Chicago area homes — culminating in an attempt to rob the home of Kevin McCallister (played by Macaulay Culkin) after he's been left home alone at Christmas.
Speaking to PEOPLE about filming the scene, Stern recounts that his blood-curdling scream was "an homage to the woman in Psycho in the shower."
Stern added that there was a "tarantula trainer" on set during the scene's filming, though he wasn't confident the spider itself was actually trained."I'm like, 'How did you train him?' He said, 'We can't really train him,' and I'm like 'OK, well you know is he gonna care that I scream at him?' and he's like, 'He can't hear.' And I'm like 'OK. Well ... Should we take the stinger out?' And he said, 'If we take the stinger out, he'll die.' And I said, 'But if you don't, then I'll die.' "
Home Alone is streaming now on Disney+.
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