My Girl Studio’s Jamie Lee Curtis was asked to put a warning on the label about a bee sting Macaulay Culkin | film

Jamie Lee Curtis said she asked the studio behind the 1991 comedy-drama My Girl to put a warning on the poster, because of the dramatic death of its central character at the end of the film.

Speaking on The View, Curtis, 67, said she was concerned enough about the film’s contradictory promotional materials that she contacted the studio’s head of marketing.

“I called the head of marketing at Columbia and said, ‘Guys, you have a poster of the biggest star in the world, Macaulay Culkin, and this little girl is laughing on the cover of the poster,'” Lupe Goldberg said. I said: You have to put a warning. You have to say [there are] Issues of life and death are explored in this movie, because this little kid is going to die in the movie and you’re going to see him dead in a coffin and it’s going to scare every kid in America!

In the film, Curtis plays the undertaker at the funeral home owned by the family of a young girl played by Anna Chlumsky. She befriended an unpopular, bespectacled boy played by Culkin, who was 10 years old and already a household name due to the success of Home Alone, which had been released the previous year.

Culkin’s character suffers from a number of allergies, and shortly after the children share their first kiss, he is fatally attacked by a swarm of bees. Last week, the actor revealed that the scene was filmed using hundreds of real bees.

Speaking on the On Film… with Kevin McCarthy podcast, Culkin said: “They put these things on my hands that smell like a queen bee, so… [the bees] I was actually attracted to my hand and was not a threat.

“They’ve already shot thousands of bees at me, imagine that! I’m not kidding, those are real bees. They won’t fly today.”

He added that he was asked to “wave my hand in front of my face so the bees could stand in front of my face and it would look good for the camera.” Once they stopped filming, he was advised to “wash my hands with hot water and then go into the forest.”

“A beekeeper gave me a piece of advice. He said, ‘Humans run faster than bees fly.’ I was like, ‘But I’m 10 years old. How fast do you think I am?

The film, which was rated PG, was a box office success, grossing $121 million worldwide and spawning a sequel.

Goldberg noted the shock of some in the audience, saying, “That doesn’t mean they didn’t scare the kids.” Curtis agreed, adding: “I think today it would have had a warning label.”