Macaulay Culkin is one of the most famous child stars of all time. In the early 90s he starred in My daughter, Richie rich, and, of course, two Alone at home movies. Then at age 15, Macaulay retired from his screen career, spending nine years out of the limelight before returning to acting. The decision came as Macaulay also legally emancipated himself from his parents, and it’s something he’s talked about in the past. But in a recent interview, her brother, actor Kieran culkin, offered new insight into Macaulay’s life as a child star, including some of the reasons Macaulay quit acting in his teens and early twenties. Read on to see what Kieran shared about his older brother.
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In a new interview with Hollywood journalist, Kieran explained that he and his six siblings started acting in productions in New York City when they were kids. A neighbor manager put them in when he heard that a production needed children. “He said to me, ‘Well, I know these people. They have six or seven and I think the father was an actor. Maybe they would be interested,'” Kieran recalls. “That’s how it started. Soon it got to a place like, ‘Sure you want kids? What sex? What age? Yeah, we’ve got a bunch of them. Here, take the one. -this.'”
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Macaulay became a superstar with his role in Alone at home, in which Kieran also appeared as his cousin, Fuller. After the remarkable success of this film, Kieran saw his brother being approached by strangers. “He would be harassed on the street,” Kieran said THR. “One time a woman took off her hat and looked at him and said, ‘Yeah, it’s him! You’re not that cute.’ And then he returned the hat and walked away. “
Kieran was also bothered by fans, sometimes because he was mistaken for his brother. “When I was doing one of the Father of the bride movies, this woman ran up to me and said, “Are you Macluckly Macluckly? And I went, ‘No.’ She said, “Can I have a photo? I said, ‘I’m not him.’ And in my mind, I’m like ‘No one is that.’ “
Macaulay has claimed over the years that his father, Culkin Kit, was physically and emotionally abusive towards him. Kit was also known throughout Hollywood for being picky about his son’s plans. Macaulay ultimately sought to emancipate himself from his parents. “Our divorce in 1994 was one of the best things that ever happened because it led me to quit the industry,” Macaulay said on that of Marc Maron podcast in 2018 (via the Mirror). “I wanted to take a break for a while and finally I was like, ‘I’m done guys, I hope you all made your money because it doesn’t come from me anymore.'”
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Kieran said Kit was not abusive towards him, but “he was not a good person and, yes, probably not a good parent.” Of his parents’ separation, the 39-year-old actor said, “I never thought of him as a dad. He didn’t really belong here, and when he finally left for good, it was. made the most sense. ” The THR The article points out that Kit and Kieran haven’t spoken to each other since 2014, and at that time Kit was living in Oregon and had suffered a major stroke.
“I was fed up, to be honest,” Macaulay said of starring in a 2018 interview with Ellen degeneres. “I liked 14 movies in six years or something like that. I was often away from home. I was away from school. I needed something else.” After his retirement, he went to high school. “It was the smartest thing I could have done was take eight years off,” he added.
Macaulay returned to the cinema with the film Party monster in 2003. Currently he appears on the final season of american horror story. As for Kieran, he stars in the HBO series Succession and was in the movie No sudden movement, released earlier this year.
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