TWO former child stars of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids have teamed up for a special reunion – sending fans wild.
Amy O’Neill and Thomas Wilson Brown both appeared in the hit 90s flick, which followed the chaos that ensued when scientist Wayne Szalinksi (Rick Moranis) accidentally shrunk his children and the neighbour’s kids.
Amy O’Neill, 53, played Moranis’ daughter in the movie while Thomas Wilson Brown, 51, starred as Little Russ, the neighbour’s offspring.
The child actors appeared on social media promoting a Halloween event.
Blonde Amy looked all grown up wearing a baseball cap, pearl necklace and blue patterned dress with her glasses attached.
Thomas stood next to her in a blue checked shirt, while promoting the bash looking tanned and chiselled.
The performers told fans on Instagram: “I’m Amy O’Neil. I’m Thomas Brown.
“And we got shrunk in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. We’re going to be coming out to Illinois for the Haunted Halloween Flea Market.”
The continued: “Please join us. Come out. It’s going to be really fun. We’d love to meet you.”
Fans commented: “The duo are back.” A second wrote: “So cool.” A third penned: “Just amazing.”
The award-winning classic movie, starring Moranis and Marcia Strassman, celebrated its 35th anniversary this year.
The film produced two sequels, Honey, I Blew Up The Kid in 1992 and Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves in 1997.
Ghostbusters star Moranis went on to star in Parenthood, The Flintstones and the two sequels to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
“M*A*S*H star Strassman sadly died in March 2007 from advanced breast cancer, aged just 66.
It was reported in May 2019 that Walt Disney were set to make a reboot of the much-loved movie starring the voice of Frozen‘s Olaf, Josh Gad.
But in June 2023, he revealed: “A lot of you are ask me what’s going on with this film.
“Truth is, we were inches from starting and then COVID hit, inches from starting again and then my schedule exploded with conflicts, inches from starting again and the budget got the best of us.”
In 2020, Moranis said about the movie: “If that were made today, it would be made very differently, probably just with green screen and computer-generated stuff.”
Director Joe Johnston “had the vision” for the film.
Moranis added. “And on that movie, I was really an actor.
“I think I drove him crazy a couple of times trying to get more comedy into it because I was always looking for how to disrupt and get some more jokes in, and poor Joe just wanted to make his movie.”
Moranis’ wife, costume designer Ann Belsky, died of breast cancer in 1991, and the actor retreated from Hollywood.
He previously told The Hollywood Reporter: “I took a break, which turned into a longer break.
“Stuff happens to people all the time, and people make adjustments, change careers, move to another city. Really, that’s all I did.”
What the actors did next
Amy O’Neill
1982 Family Ties
1984 Murder, She Wrote
1986 The Young and the Restless
1987 Star Trek: The Next Generation
1989 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
1989 Desperate for Love with Christian Slater
1992 Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
Thomas Wilson Brown
1990 Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael, alongside Winona Ryder.
1990–1991 Knots Landing
1993 Beverly Hills, 90210
1993/1994 Boy Meets World
1994 Days of Our Lives
2001 Pearl Harbor
2003 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2012 The Mooring
2020 Prop Culture
