“Nobody was gonna say anything, ‘cause they knew Richard was behind the whole thing,” Scott Schwartz claimed.

Richard Pryor arranged ‘makeout sessions,’ peeping opportunity for teen costar on set, A Christmas Story actor claims

"Nobody was gonna say anything, 'cause they knew Richard was behind the whole thing," Scott Schwartz claimed.

By Wesley Stenzel

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Scott Schwartz and Richard Pryor in 'The Toy'. Credit:

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- Former child star Scott Schwartz says that he talked with Richard Pryor about "life, sex, drugs, you name it" on the set of *The Toy*.

- The actor claimed that Pryor arranged "makeout sessions" with girls in his "age range" on set when he was 14.

- Schwartz also said that Pryor schemed so that the teen actor could see one of his adult costars change her clothes.

Scott Schwartz is making some shocking claims about one of his most famous costars.

The former child actor, best known for playing Ralphie's friend Flick in *A Christmas Story*, discussed his friendship with the late Richard Pryor in the most recent episode of the Investigation Discovery documentary series *Hollywood Demons*.

"He was fun," Schwartz said of the legendary comedian, who was his costar in *The Toy*, a 1982 comedy about a spoiled child who forces his father to "buy" a janitor to be his friend. "I was a kid. At the same time, he didn't really treat me that way, though."

Schwartz explained that Pryor, who died in 2005, had surprisingly frank conversations with him on set despite the fact that the young actor was just 14 at the time of filming.

"We talked about everything, whether it was theater, comedy, movies, life, sex, drugs, you name it," he remembered. "He's like, 'Any questions you got, just call me, I'll tell you. Done it all, don't worry.'"

Richard Pryor and Scott Schwartz in 'The Toy'.

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The former child star said that Pryor arranged for Schwartz to have "makeout sessions" with teen extras. "Day after day, when there were extras on set, especially kids my age, Richard would send them to my trailer," he remembered. "Girls were coming to my trailer, and they were 13, 14, 15 years old, you know, my age range, whatever."

He continued, "I'm having makeout sessions, like, you can't do that now! But nobody cared, and nobody was gonna say anything, 'cause they knew Richard was behind the whole thing."

Representatives for Columbia Pictures, the film's distributor, did not immediately respond to **'s request for comment.

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Elsewhere in the documentary, Schwartz also claimed that his sexually charged conversations with Pryor led to an unusual moment on set where the child star witnessed a background actress changing her clothes.

"He knew I liked the upper anatomy of a woman," Schwartz said of Pryor before explaining that the film's transportation coordinator, Alan Falco, arranged for the background actress' trailer to sit in close proximity to the child star's.

Scott Schwartz in Parsippany, N.J., on April 28, 2023.

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"I'd gotten changed into my stuff for lunch," Schwartz remembered. "And here she comes, she's right there, and the top comes right off, and I have a magnificent shot of a magnificent set of boobs, okay fine. And I'm going cuckoo, man, I'm like, 'Oh my God, this is the greatest thing I've ever seen.'"

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Schwartz wanted to thank Falco for the arrangement, but the crew member said that he wasn't the person responsible for the operation. "I go and I tell Alan, the transportation coordinator, 'Alan, dude, you ain't gonna believe this. Listen, I owe you dinner. I gotta do something,'" he recalled. "He goes, 'No, I'll take a lunch, but you gotta give the other half to Richard, 'cause it was his idea.'"

*Hollywood Demons*' latest episode, "Child Stars Gone Wild," is streaming on HBO Max.

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