Home Alone’s Daniel Stern Hospitalized After Medical Emergency

Home Alone star Daniel Stern was hospitalized after suffering a medical emergency earlier this month.

Stern, 68, who memorably played thief Marv in 1990’s Home Alone and its sequel in 1992, was rushed to the emergency room on October 7, per TMZ.

The Ventura County Fire Department confirmed they responded to a residence in Somis, California, for a medical emergency. 

It is unclear what the medical issue was.

Stern was assessed by firefighters and taken to hospital. He has since been released with his representative confirming he is in good health. 

The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Stern for comment and has yet to hear back. 

In December, Stern revealed he has left Hollywood behind and now lives on a farm and grows tangerines.

Despite being a main face of the beloved flick, he now works as a cattle rancher, grows tangerines and works as a sculptor.

Sharing a clip to TikTok, which racked up more than 2.1 million views, he revealed he was picking and selling the tangerines on his farm. 

He said: ‘Hello, as you have come to discover, I live on a farm and we grow tangerines here. 

‘They came and picked them the other day and I like to have them pick me a bin and then I juice them up, and then I freeze them and give them away to my friends. 

‘I just wanted to show you what is it like, here are our tangerines, there is my bucket.’

In another video, which racked up over 1.6 million views, he showcased one of the impressive sculptures he was working on. 

It comes after Stern revealed he had to fight to get a raise for the Home Alone sequel. 

When the original 1990 Home Alone movie became a box office hit and a sequel was immediately greenlit, Stern previously recalled the studios approaching him with an offer of $600,000.

In his new memoir Home And Alone, the actor revealed the offer was double his salary from the first movie, but his co-stars had received multi-million starting offers.

He said he asked Twentieth Century Fox for more money because Joe Pesci, who played his Wet Bandits sidekick Harry, was making around $2 to $3 million.

He also wrote in his book that leading star Macaulay Culkin, now 43, got a sequel deal for $5 million plus 5 percent of the gross box office earnings.

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York premiered in November 1992, two years after the first movie — which was almost canned before production even began — was released.

Initially, Stern recalled producers taking six months just to make him the offer of $600,000, which he added was ‘double my original salary, but not quite the pot of gold I was hoping for.’

He said he asked for more but decided to continue negotiating with the studios when he learned his co-star would be making more than quadruple his salary.

‘I asked if that was the same as Joe [Pesci] was getting, and they said it was not,’ he said.

Stern explained the studio eventually came back to him with an offer of $800,000 but by that point, he had learned that Pesci was ‘getting somewhere between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 plus gross percentage of the profits.’

Wanting to get paid at least half of what his co-star was making, he did not accept the six-digit number.

When his agent advised him against it and to just take the offer, Stern said he fired him.

Looking back, Stern said it was a ‘prideful thing to do,’ but said that if that was the best his agent could do for him, ‘then he wasn’t very good at his job.’

Stern started negotiating with the studios himself without an agent and asked for $1.5 million as well as two percent of the gross profits.

The negotiations continued for so long that Stern was asked to start filming with the cast before they had finalized a contract.

In the end, however, Stern wrote it all paid off as he received his asking salary and was offered one percent of the gross profits.

‘I knew they couldn’t do the movie without me, but I was also insecure, since I almost blew it the first time,’ he said about how he almost blundered his casting in the first film.

‘I didn’t want to be too greedy when I loved the movie and the part so much.’

He told the Los Angeles Times that he agreed in the end because ‘there’s lots of things I get out of the movies besides money.’

He also opened up about how he almost lost his Home Alone role, which he called ‘one of the stupidest decisions in my showbusiness life.’

He said that the six-week shoot was extended to two months at the last minute and when he learned the pay would remain the same, he decided to back out.

Another actor — who was later revealed to be Agent Cody Banks star Dan Roebuck — was then casted into the role but after a couple days of rehearsals, the producers asked Stern to come back, insisting upon the previous offer.

‘I got a call saying they had redone the shooting schedule and they would now need me for eight weeks instead of six,’ he explained.

‘They were asking me to add on 33 percent more shooting time, so I asked if they were going to raise my salary the same amount, and they said they would not.’

Fortunately, however, he ended up getting asked to come back and play the part of Marv, one half of the beloved, bumbling and burgling duo.