Blake Collins and Jordan Warkol still have some of the memorabilia more than 30 years after they filmed the movie
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NEED TO KNOW
- Former child star Jordan Warkol exclusively opened up to PEOPLE about the props he took home after filming 1994’s The Little Rascals
- Warkol tells PEOPLE that he still treasures memorabilia from the film, including a popcorn bucket, Pogs, and a cardboard cutout of his character
- He and costar Blake Collins, childhood friends, now co-host a podcast interviewing other child actors
Two cast members from 1994’s The Little Rascals are opening up about the props they took home and still treasure more than 30 years after filming the iconic movie — including two that were alive.
In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Blake Collins and Jordan Warkol — who played Woim and Froggy, respectively — don’t hesitate when asked about core memories from making the film. They’re also quick to reveal some of the things that came home with them after filming wrapped.
“I took the lizards with me,” Warkol, 39, admits.
In the film, Warkol’s character, Froggy, pulls a pair of lizards out of his overalls, famously uttering the line, “I whipped out my lizard.”
Looking back, Warkol shares that he grew fond of them and, after filming wrapped, “brought them home.”
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“My mom didn’t know what the hell an iguana was, and I don’t think she realized it grows to the cage you put it in,” Warkol adds. “So they ended up being these 5-foot, 6-foot long-tailed monsters that she eventually just stopped holding because they’d whip her. So I had those for a bunch of years.”
Adds 41-year-old Collins, who has been close with Warkol since before they made the film, “I remember them in Jordan’s room until we were, I don’t know, probably 10.”
Collins and Warkol — who host the new podcast The Not So Little Rascals, in which they interview other former child actors — have other memories from the film, too.
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Collins, who was 7 when the film was made, says he keeps a small cabinet full of memorabilia from the film, including a Little Rascals-branded popcorn bucket that was distributed at AMC theaters in 1994.
There are other themed products, as well: “I have Pogs,” Warkol, who was 6 at the time the film was made, says. “I do have my cardboard cut out. So we had a whole thing.”
Collins now works behind the scenes, doing camera and electrical work on films like Wonder Woman 1984 while Warkol works in business development at OTTera, a global content distribution marketplace that connects media publishers with major platforms like Roku and Samsung TV Plus.
The Not So Little Rascals focuses on life after fame, identity, burnout, and growing up in the film industry.
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