Actor Miko Hughes was only four years old when he delivered one of the most memorable lines in the classic ’90s movie Kindergarten Cop – but the line almost never happened.
Hughes and several other child actors starred alongside the legendary Arnold Schwarzenegger who played an undercover detective named John Kimble posing as a kindergarten teacher.
In what has now become an iconic scene from the film, Hughes’ character famously told told Kimble “boys have a penis and girls have a vagina.”
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Hughes, who later had a stint as Aaron on the popular sitcom Full House, spoke of the famous line on a recent episode of Full House Rewind revealing that his mum nearly didn’t approve it.
“The story I’m told is that they came to my parents and said they [wanted me] to say this line that’s kind of provocative,” he told podcast host David Coulier.
“I guess my mum said she took a couple of days. She was like, ‘This is kind of crazy. I don’t know. Is it good? Is it bad?”
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Hughes explained that after a little to and fro, his mum eventually warmed up to the idea.
“She thought, ‘That’s gonna be the line everyone remembers’ and went for it,” Hughes explained.
“And yeah, now I’ll forever be known as the ‘boys have a penis, girls have a vagina’ kid.”
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Hughes mum was on the money as his quote is one of the film’s most famous lines but as it happens it wasn’t even in the original script.
”I think I was the youngest one in the classroom on Kindergarten Cop,” he said.
“The stories that I’m told, you know, from my parents, [is that] they didn’t have a line for me. I didn’t have lines written. Some of it was written as developed on set.”
The famous line instead came as a result of the improvising Schwarzenegger was doing with all the kids on set which Hughes says he was great at.
“He was fantastic. He was very kind,” Hughes said of the movie icon.
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Along with Hughes ‘provocative’ line, the popular ’90s film delivered plenty of iconic one-liners including Schwarzenegger’s hilarious “take it back” line and of course the famous “It’s not a tumour” line.
Released in December 1990, the film grossed $202 million USD worldwide and despite mixed critical reviews, Schwarzenegger was praised for moving into comedy films after a long stint in the action genre.
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