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  • 7/4/2025
THR pulls Adam Brody aside for some "Off Script" moments ahead of his THR Roundtable interview and he reveals why 'Home Alone' made him want to become an actor...and is also his comfort watch! Plus, he has one requirement when it comes to his trailer.

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00:00For sure, Macaulay Culkin, Home Alone.
00:09River Phoenix ran a movie, A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon.
00:12In RoboCop 2, there is a kid about 12 years old that plays a drug kingpin
00:17that dies on a pile of money Scarface style, and that performance as well.
00:21River Phoenix kind of had a James Dean thing going.
00:23Macaulay Culkin, was he doing chaplain-esque stuff, perhaps?
00:27The drug kingpin kid, was doing Scarface.
00:30The thing about it was seeing kids my age.
00:32Even though I didn't become a child actor, I didn't do it for another 10 years.
00:36Seeing someone my age do it was the real, more or less.
00:38I guess River Phoenix was older at the time, but still.
00:40I have to say, now with my kids, Home Alone really holds up.
00:45It's gorgeous. It's like gorgeously shot. It's very funny.
00:48John Williams scored it, so it's like beautiful.
00:51I mean, yeah, that holds up really well, so there's that.
00:54I watched Coming to America with one of my kids, and that also really holds up.
00:59A dog would make me feel very comfortable.
01:00Other than that, no, just don't make it so cold.
01:03That's what I would say.
01:04Everyone, and that goes for hotel rooms, too.
01:06It doesn't have to be 66.
01:07The weekends are mostly driven by the kids, so, yeah, that's, you know,
01:13that's going to be a play day.
01:14That's going to be a, if you can link up with kids your kids like,
01:18as well as parents you like, that's, that's, yeah, that's a home run.
01:24I think I'd be a producer and just do the same,
01:27a lot of the same stuff I do, but from a chair.
01:29I voice my opinion and not have to dance, you know?
01:31Music I listened to on the way here.
01:33I did listen to some music.
01:34Some of it that really spoke to me on the drive here,
01:38Bashti Bunyan is her name, and she's, I think it's 60s.
01:41It's, it's pretty eclectic and folky, but kind of, um, mystical almost.
01:46And, um, it's very cool.
01:48There'd be restaurants.
01:49It's always, it's always food.
01:51I really wanted blues clues early on when I first moved to LA.
01:55And you fought for it?
01:56Yeah, I tried real hard.
01:57Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:57It's like 1999.
01:58I didn't get it, but I would have had it.
02:00I would have loved it.
02:01And, uh, yeah.

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