"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!"
"They put this stuff on my fingertips that smells like the queen bee so [the bees] were actually attracted to my hands and I wasn't a threat. They actually released thousands of bees on me, imagine that! I'm not joking, those are real bees. That would not fly today."
Jamie Lee Curtis objected to My Girl's perky poster that featured Macaulay Culkin and a laughing child without signaling the film's fatal content. Curtis contacted Columbia's marketing president and urged a warning that the film explores life and death and contains a child's on-screen death. The film follows a young girl and her friendship with an allergic boy, played by Macaulay Culkin, who is fatally attacked by a swarm of bees after a first kiss. Curtis plays the family mortician and Anna Chlumsky plays the young girl. Culkin confirmed that hundreds or thousands of real bees were used and that attractant was applied to his fingertips during filming.
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