Pete Davidson risked ‘real damage’ to his eye on The Home

Pete Davidson risked “real damage” to his eye filming a particular scene for The Home.

Pete Davidson risked “real damage” to his eye filming The Home.

The 31-year-old star was shocked to discover that one particular scene in his new horror movie, which entailed a needle being held above his peeper while it was held open, wouldn’t be done using CGI – and grew even more worried when he arrived on set for filming to see a team of three doctors looking “a little concerned”.

Speaking on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, he said: “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.”

Of seeing the doctors on set, he added: “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 recognisable eyes.’ I go, ‘What the hell are you talking about? No I don’t. My eyes are normal, sir.’ “

Pete tried unsuccessfully to argue that no one would expect it to be his eye in the scene but ultimately found himself with it being held open in a way he compared to A Clockwork Orange.

He continued: “They open my eye or whatever, and it’s all… It’s all jacked up. And there’s these three doctors on the side, and then this actor was messing up his lines. And I was like, ‘Come on, dude.’ “

And while they filmed, Pete heard a doctor warn the director: “Yeah, about 30 more seconds, there’s going to be some real damage.”

He continued: “So I take the thing off. I’m like, you know, squirting it with water and stuff, I’m like, ‘What the hell just happened?’

“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…’ “

Despite his struggles with the scene, the former Saturday Night Live star relished the chance to do “just a straight horror movie”.

He added: “I had a really good time, and it was just weird. It’s a weird one.”