Actor told Columbia’s head of marketing that the film’s scene showing the death of Culkin, then 10, was going to freak out every child in the US
Jamie Lee Curtis has said she asked the studio behind the 1991 comedy-drama My Girl to put a trigger warning on the poster, owing to the dramatic death of its central character towards the end of the film.
Speaking on The View, Curtis, 67, said she was sufficiently concerned by the incongruously perky publicity materials for the movie to phone the studio’s head of marketing.
“I called the president of marketing at Columbia,” she told Whoopi Goldberg, “and I said: ‘Guys, you have a poster of the biggest star in the world, Macaulay Culkin, and this little girl laughing on the cover of the poster.’ I said: ‘You have to put a warning. You have to say [there are] issues of life and death explored in this film, because this little boy is going to die on film and you’re going to see him dead in a coffin and you’re going to freak out every child in America!’”
In the film, Curtis plays the mortician at the funeral home owned by the family of a young girl played by Anna Chlumsky. She befriends an unpopular bespectacled boy played by Culkin, who was then 10 and already a household name due to the success of Home Alone, which was released the previous year.
