If you once starred in Home Alone you might be tempted to rest on your laurels. (And also those residual checks.) The same is true if you narrated The Wonder Years. But Daniel Stern isn’t sitting around reminiscing about his past works. His long and impressive career, which has included some truly beloved, truly iconic projects, is far from over. It’s also expanding into new mediums. He’s found a different kind of creative outlet to express himself away from the screen He lives on a tangerine farm, and when he’s not busy making fresh juice for friends he’s busy sculpting.
And just like his acting, he’s really freaking good at it.
For All Mankind’s Daniel Stern has started his own TikTok page where he posts about his life on his farm. . Subscribe to it. Now. Like him it’s absolutely delightful. His short videos blurs the line between humor and insanity, between sincere and performance. Sometimes he simply films himself shooting hoops in his old man shorts and t-shirts. Other times he lets us see how hair can make someone go from looking like a mad scientist to a……slightly less mad scientist.
None of that is surprising. But what might catch some fans off guard is just how talented a sculptor he is. He shared a couple videos about his work on a piece tentatively titled “Dancer On A Chair.” The life-sized piece made of clay is simply stunning. The woman, wearing an intricately designed dress, looks as though we’ve caught her mid performance. Any second it seems like she’ll get up and start swaying her hips to music on she can hear.
When we heard “Daniel Stern is now a sculptor” we didn’t know what to expect, but whatever we had in mind this absolutely exceeds it. But maybe that’s because we know if we had Daniel Stern’s resume we’d be sitting on a chair rather than sculpting a piece on one.