Archie Yates & Aisling Bea Interview Home Sweet Home Alone

Archie Yates & Aisling Bea Interview: Home Sweet Home Alone

Home Sweet Home Alone stars Archie Yates and Aisling Bea talk about updating the holiday classic, building their relationship on and off set, and SNL.

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Home Sweet Home Alone is the newest film in the Home Alone franchise starring Archie Yates as Max, the new kid who gets left behind while his family goes away. Aisling Bea plays Max’s mother Carol who is frantically trying to get home to her missing son. Home Sweet Home Alone is now available to stream on Disney+.

Screen Rant spoke to Yates and Bea about updating a holiday classic, bonding on and off-screen, and stories from the set.

Screen Rant: Archie, you are so charming in every project you touch. What excited you most about coming onto a project like Home Sweet Home Alone?

Archie Yates: The honor playing this role. I honestly, at first, didn’t think I deserved this blessing.

Aisling Bea: What? Don’t ever speak about my beloved son like that. But you love the Home Alone franchise and movies.

Archie Yates: I religiously watch it every Christmas.

Aisling Bea: So, to get to actually be “the kid” is a big deal. Also, I think the movie really benefits from Archie. He has such a strong energy and comedy vibe of his own. That’s really important in making it; it’s not a reboot or remake of the other movies. This is a new movie all on its own, so I think that’s a lovely part of you playing it.

Backing it up, because you said it’s such an honor. Can you tell me about the moment you were told, “We want you as the lead in Home Sweet Home Alone?”

Archie Yates: At first, I was paralyzed for three minutes. And then I started having mental breakdowns. I was like… [screams]. “Oh my God. Oh my God. Okay.”

Aisling Bea: Did you tell your friends? Did you text your friends? Who did you tell?

Archie Bates: I told pretty much everyone.

Aisling Bea: Were you allowed to do that?

Archie Yates: Actually, I can’t remember. I wasn’t. I forgot.

Aisling Bea: His real mother is like, “No, you didn’t tell anyone. Remember!” [laughs]

Home Alone as a franchise is just completely beloved. But what I loved about this movie is, right off the bat, you realize it’s not trying to be the original. What was it about the script that really caught your attention?

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Aisling Bea: Maybe that element. Also, I like the fact that the mother is a difficult, confrontational person. I think a lot of the time, moms are represented in kind of a schmaltzy way. I like being able to be someone who’s the person who pushes through the queue. “Hi, I know everyone’s been waiting, but it’s particularly difficult for me to wait.” That sort of character trait is quite fun to play.

This movie is written by Saturday Night Live’s Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell, and there are cameos and comedic legends all over the place in this movie. Was there a particularly memorable moment on set, Archie, that you had with one of these comedians?

Archie Yates: This is going to sound a bit scary, but the safety team were on it as fast as they could, and they sorted out the situation very quickly. In the chandelier falling scene, sparks were flying out everywhere. And this wasn’t supposed to happen, but it did: Ellie’s hair caught on fire.

Aisling Bea: Did it? Oh my God.

Archie Yates: Yeah, it was a bit of a strange experience.

Aisling Bea: It’s not a wig that she’s wearing now? Or is it her own hair?

Archie Yates: No, it is her own hair. It was out in a couple of seconds. That’s how fast they were.

Aisling Bea: I thought you were gonna say working with a legend who you love, but no, it was Ellie’s hair on fire.

Archie Yates: I mean, all of them are legends.

Aisling Bea: I’m gonna set my hair on fire next time, just to feel seen by you, Archie.

Archie Yates: This is the problem with us. We just get lost in conversations too much, and we just waste people’s time.

Tell me about your relationship, because it seems like you guys really have a bond that formed on this set.

Archie Yates: We automatically bonded.

Aisling Bea: We’re not supposed to do this, because we’ll get in front of the logo. But look at us, we don’t even care yet.

Archie Yates: We don’t even care. But, yeah, I think we get along really well. We met and sort of clicked straight away, which was nice, because the job took almost a year in the end – over a year to make, rather than the first idea that it was going to be a few weeks or months in early 2020. But then a few other things happened to get in the way of that.

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So, it’s nice to feel that kind of connection. Because most of acting is just waiting around a lot of the time. People don’t train you how to wait around, so it’s nice if you get along with your pal.

Archie Yates: Besties

This movie does pay some homage to the original Home Alone. There are some really great moments. Archie, did you have a favorite moment that you recreated from the original because you’re such a fan?

Archie Yates: As much as I do love the Home Alone series, this film isn’t supposed to be a sequel or a remake. It’s supposed to be a completely new story, but still in the same universe.

Aisling Bea: But what are the bits that you were like, “Ooh, that’s a little bit of a wink back,” that you really liked doing? Some of guns shooting, I would think so.

Archie Yates: Oh, yeah, the guns. Definitely.

Aisling Bea: He loves his guns.

Do you think we could get a sequel? Is Max gonna get left at home again?

Aisling Bea: Well, I’m clumsy. I’m someone who does not learn a lesson. So, who knows? Yeah. I mean, it happened before to another mother about 20 years ago, where she went to New York City and didn’t get the kid on the plane. And you’re like, “Really?” So, it could happen. It could happen again.

Archie, please tell me you put your name in the hat while you were working with all these people to host SNL because I would love to see that.

Aisling Bea: Oh my God. That’s a great idea. Saturday Night Live.

Archie Yates: Saturday Night Live? What’s that?

Aisling Bea: SNL is not as huge in the UK as it is [in the US]. So, it’s a really big sketch show over here, and normally they’d have someone come on to host and it would be a big honor. But Archie would just be like, “Oh, whatever. I’m just gonna do it.” He’ll do it! And I get 10%.

Archie Yates: What do I do?

Aisling Bea: You’d have to host it, yeah.

Archie Yates: What does that entail?

Aisling Bea: Chatting away; being in a few sketches. It’d be very up your alley, to be honest.

Archie Yates: Sketches? Like, scripts?

Aisling Bea: Yeah, just little short scripts.

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