The election of Donald Trump may have sent the dreams of many women into hiding, but it brought another demographic out from the shadows: the other extras in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Handfuls of extras from the 1992 should-be-classic are rediscovering their voice thanks to the victory of their former colleague. Mac Lowenthal is one such extra.

        “When I heard my castmate Donald had won the election I realized I had been sitting on my ass wallowing when I could have been getting into politics.” Lowenthal proceeded to bring up a bookmarked page on his laptop of the Cleveland Gazette’s 1995 review of the film. “I got a rave, they call it ‘watchable’!”

        The sensation does not live only in Mac; dozens of other extras have sent in applications to their local governments to realize their governing potential. Alicia Rhodes attended a town hall meeting in her hometown of Nashua, NH and asked council people 17 minutes worth of questions regarding the hamster Choo Choo in her son’s third grade class.

        “I’ve had local commercials and bit parts, sure, but I’ve felt rejected and dejected. For the first time in 20 years I feel like I can do anything,” Rhodes confided, folding the button down lavender tops she purchased from H&M that morning. “I was feeling washed up, but Donald Trump showed me that if a 70-year-old movie extra can become the president-elect, nothing is impossible for me.”