Macaulay Culkin’s Real Bee Swarm

For the bee sting death scene in My Girl (1991), production used thousands of real bees on American actor Macaulay Culkin, who was only 10 at the time. A bee handler coated his fingertips with a substance that smelled like a queen bee, which drew the insects toward his hands and face while the cameras rolled. Culkin said he had to wave his hands near his face for the shot, then wash them in hot water and run into the woods after filming stopped.

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