Joe Pesci celebrated the 30th anniversary of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York by regaling People magazine with his memories of the shoot.

And while he says he knew the sequel would have the same, if not more, energy and enthusiasm as the original, he also ended up suffering for his craft.

In addition to the expected bumps, bruises, and general pains that you would associate with that particular type of physical humor, I did sustain serious burns to the top of my head during the scene where Harrys hat is set on fire, Pesci told People in an interview published Tuesday .

But, he said, he was fortunate enough to have professional stuntmen do the real heavy stunts.

Pesci won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Goodfellas in 1991, and proved his comedic chops in Easy Money (1983) and Lethal Weapon 2 (1989). But he recalled production of the booby-trapped Home Alone franchise being far more demanding.

It was a nice change of pace to do that particular type of slapstick comedy. But the Home Alone movies were a more physical type of comedy, therefore, a little more demanding, Pesci told People, adding that the sequel had more spontaneity and creativity on the set than the first.

The first two films, directed by Chris Columbus, star Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, a young Chicago boy whose family unwittingly leaves him behind while taking their Christmas vacations. The New York-set sequel sees Kevin encounter Harry (Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern), his thieving nemeses from the original, yet again.