'Sort of Offended': Sean Astin and The Goonies Cast Debunk Longstanding Rumor About Classic Film

There's one persistent rumor about beloved family film The Goonies, but Sean Astin doesn't want to hear it. In fact, he's mildly insulted that the rumor ever became a thing.
The rumor is that the child actors in The Goonies deliberately weren't shown One-Eyed Willy's pirate ship beforehand, so their looks of awe when they encountered it on camera would be real. But, as was revealed at the “Hey You Guys! The Goonies Reunion” panel at Awesome Con over the weekend (via People), some of them very much had seen the ship beforehand.
"I was sort of offended that they had that idea, that they wouldn’t let the kids see the pirate ship, so that they could capture their real reaction. Like, what? We don’t know how to do real? We did real reactions all the time," Astin said on the panel. He went on, "But I remember...
The rumor is that the child actors in The Goonies deliberately weren't shown One-Eyed Willy's pirate ship beforehand, so their looks of awe when they encountered it on camera would be real. But, as was revealed at the “Hey You Guys! The Goonies Reunion” panel at Awesome Con over the weekend (via People), some of them very much had seen the ship beforehand.
"I was sort of offended that they had that idea, that they wouldn’t let the kids see the pirate ship, so that they could capture their real reaction. Like, what? We don’t know how to do real? We did real reactions all the time," Astin said on the panel. He went on, "But I remember...
- 4/7/2025
- by Sarah Barrett
- CBR
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