Chris Columbus has directed some of the most iconic child performances in movie history as the filmmaker behind “Home Alone” and the first two “Harry Potter” films, and his tip for finding the right kids is to make sure they have the right parents. Columbus sat down with Demi Lovato for her Hulu documentary “Child Star” (via Entertainment Weekly) and said that his experience with Macaulay Culkin‘s stardom in the wake of “Home Alone” informed his casting search on “Harry Potter.”
“We went from shooting ‘Home Alone’ [where] nobody cared, but in the course of a year, Macaulay Culkin became a huge star, and that was unexpected,” Columbus said. “It’s not like
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