Just like Mac! Kieran Culkin has had a front-row seat to his older brother Macaulay Culkin’s performing profession lengthy earlier than following in his onscreen footsteps.
“It was pretty nuts. And I think what people sometimes fail to remember, too, is that he was a kid. He didn’t really choose that,” the Succession star recalled to NPR in December 2021 of his sibling’s childhood fame. “It’s something that happened to him. And I think when you’re a kid, you obviously don’t have the tools to handle something like that. So I think it might have been pretty tough.”
He added on the time: “For me, I got to sort of experience it secondhand as a child. So to me, I always have known this is not something one would want to pursue. It’s not a very nice thing, fame. No anonymity, it’s terrible.”
Macaulay received his massive break taking part in the mischievous Kevin McCallister in 1990’s Home Alone — a movie by which Kieran had a quick cameo — after a sequence of smaller TV and film roles. The Uncle Buck star’s brood got here alongside for the journey, together with his mother and father, Kit Culkin and Patricia Brentrup, and his a number of siblings.
Kit, who’s an completed stage actor in his personal proper, and Brentrup share seven kids collectively: Macaulay, Kieran, Rory Culkin, Quinn Culkin, Shane Culkin, Christian Culkin and Dakota “Cody” Culkin, who died in 2008 on the age of 29 following a deadly automotive crash. Kit, who has an estranged relationship with each Macaulay and Kieran, additionally shared daughter Jennifer — who died in 2000 after a drug overdose — with ex-girlfriend Adeena VanWagoner.
Kieran, who rose to fame with roles in She’s All That and Father of the Bride, has since been candid about sharing the highlight together with his massive brother.
“I have been on this very stage [before]. I was on an episode of SNL back when my brother Mac hosted 30 years ago, almost to the day,” the Margaret actor recalled throughout his Saturday Night Live internet hosting debut in November 2021. “I was 9 years old. I got to be in three sketches, two of which are non-problematic and, at the end of the show, I got to be on the stage for the good nights and I think we have a clip … So, there’s my brother, and the cast has lifted him up on their shoulders and, boom there I am, clearly jealous.”
He continued: “My brother’s up there, got his arms up all victorious and I’m down there on the ground, like, ‘Me, I want uppies.’ I ask Kevin Nealon to pick me up and he goes, ‘Yeah, OK, sure,’ I just start hamming it up for the cameras, you know? I don’t know what that [facial expression] was, like, a [Robert] De Niro impression?”
Macaulay, for his half, has been equally happy with his brother’s Hollywood success.
“Oh s—t! My brother is at the Golden Globes?! That is so cool,” the My Girl star — who shares two sons with fiancée Brenda Song — quipped through Twitter in January 2019 after watching pink carpet protection of Kieran with the Succession solid. “HOLY S—T KIERAN IS NOMINATED??? WHAT IS SUCCESSION?! Man, I should really answer his calls more often. Thanksgiving is going to be really awkward this year.”
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