Macaulay Culkin was first choice for Eminem’s ‘Stan’ music video, says Devon Sawa

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Eminem’s iconic track ‘Stan’, it has been revealed that the rapper originally wanted Macaulay Culkin to take on the role.Arriving back in 2000, the music video for the hit track starred Devon Sawa – who is known for roles in Final Destination, Idle Hands, Casper, and Real Detective – and saw him take on the role of an obsessed Eminem fan, who gets increasingly violent towards his girlfriend.However, according to a new interview by the actor, it seems that Eminem originally had another actor in mind as his first choice: Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin.“They went out to Macaulay Culkin first,” Sawa explained during a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight. “I think that they wanted him, and he wasn’t available, or didn’t want to do it or whatever.”He then went on to explain how it was the video’s director Dr.

Dre who put his name forward, and recommended him after someone in the crew saw him in Final Destination. “There happened to be somebody in the casting office that knew somebody who was friends with me, and they called me that way… and it ended up working out pretty good,” he said, also going on to say that the moment was “one of the proudest things I’ve been a part of.”The filming of the music video for ‘Stan’ arrived six years into Culkin’s retirement from acting, following his role in the 1994 film Richie Rich.

He wouldn’t make another on-screen cameo until his guest-starring role on the sitcom Will & Grace in 2003 (via Consequence).Elsewhere in the interview with ET, Sawa looked back at his time working on the ‘Stan’ video, and his personal experience of Dr.

Dre’s perfectionist approach. “I’ll never forget, they told me on the day that I was going to lip-sync it. I remember, after the first take I did, Dre.