Pete Davidson Risked His Eye For “The Home” And Then Found Out He Didn’t Have To
Pete Davidson went all in for his new horror movie The Home. The comedian-turned-actor revealed he nearly damaged his actual eyeball on set for a terrifying scene… only to find out afterward that it didn’t even need to be real.
Appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on July 22, Pete, 31, shared the wild story behind one of the most intense moments in the film. The script called for a close-up of a needle hovering over an eye, and Pete, being a normal human, assumed special effects would handle it.
“Obviously, I read the script and was just like, ‘That won’t be my eye. This is the movies. It’ll be a CGI eye.’ You can bring people back from the dead and put them in a movie. That’s not my eye,” Pete stated.
But when he arrived on set, things got weird fast. Pete was met by three doctors, all looking nervous. Confused, he turned to his director and longtime friend James DeMonaco.
As the actor recalled: “I’m like, “What’s going on?’ And my buddy James [DeMonaco], who directed it, he’s like, ‘Yeah, well. They’re here for your eye.’ And I was like, ‘What do you mean?’ He goes, ‘Well, you know, today’s that scene.’ I go,’’I know, but what do you mean?’ He’s like, ‘Well, it’s going to be your eye.’ He goes, ‘You have very recognizable eyes.’ I go, ‘What the hell are you talking about? No I don’t. My eyes are normal, sir.’”
Despite his protests, Pete soon found himself strapped in with his eye forced open just like that disturbing scene from A Clockwork Orange. And if that wasn’t bad enough, the actor playing opposite him kept flubbing his lines while Pete’s eye dried out like a crouton.
While he was struggling to avoid blinking, he heard a doctor say to the director, “Yeah, about 30 more seconds, there’s going to be some real damage.”
At that point, Pete called it. He yanked off the gear, flushed his eye with water, and asked the only reasonable question: What the hell just happened?
And then came the kicker. As Pete recounted: “Then we’re watching it in video village, and the director goes, ‘Yeah, it didn’t have to be your eyes.’ I was like, ‘Dude…’”
The comedian added, “Apparently I’ll do anything for scale.”
Despite the chaos, Pete says making The Home was a blast. In the film, he plays Max, a guy whose life is spiraling so badly that he ends up doing community service in a creepy old folks’ home instead of jail time. And, of course, things get freaky fast.
“There’s actually some sick s— in this,” he teased, describing the film as “a straight horror movie.”
