ICYMI: Matt Damon: Trump required cameos for movies filmed in his buildings

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Matt Damon: Trump required cameos for movies filmed in his buildings



https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/09/02/matt-damon-donald-trump-movie-cameos/628123001/

Charles Ventura, USA TODAY Published 6:46 a.m. ET Sept. 2, 2017 | Updated 6:55 a.m. ET Sept. 2, 2017

We might finally have a definitive explanation behind President Trump's rare cameo on Home Alone 2.
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"The deal was that if you wanted to shoot in one of his buildings, you had to write him in a part," Damon said. "Martin Brest had to write something in Scent of a Woman — and the whole crew was in on it. You have to waste an hour of your day with a [expletive] shot: Donald Trump walks in and Al Pacino’s like, 'Hello, Mr. Trump!' — you had to call him by name — and then he exits."

"You waste a little time so that you can get the permit, and then you can cut the scene out," Damon added. "But I guess in Home Alone 2 they left it in."

Chris O'Donnell, who starred in Scent of a Woman, shared a similar account when he appeared on Conan earlier this year.

“We got new pages given to us one day when we were filming [at] the Plaza Hotel — which I guess Trump owned at the time — and it said we’re doing a scene with Donald Trump," O'Donnell told Conan O'Brien. "It explained to us in that in order for us to film at the Plaza we had a little walk-on part for Donald and [ex-wife] Marla [Maples].”

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