Everything Kieran Culkin Has Said About His Relationship With Older Brother Macaulay Culkin
02.04.2023 - 21:37
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Just like Mac! Kieran Culkin has had a front-row seat to his older brother Macaulay Culkin’s acting career long before 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 at 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 got his big break playing the mischievous Kevin McCallister in 1990’s Home Alone — a film in which Kieran had a brief cameo — after a series of smaller TV and movie roles. The Uncle Buck star’s brood came along for the ride, including his parents, Kit Culkin and Patricia Brentrup, and his multiple siblings.
Kit, who is an accomplished stage actor in his own right, and Brentrup share seven children together: Macaulay, Kieran, Rory Culkin, Quinn Culkin, Shane Culkin, Christian Culkin and Dakota “Cody” Culkin, who died in 2008 at the age of 29 following a fatal car crash. Kit, who has an estranged relationship with both Macaulay and Kieran, also shared daughter Jennifer — who died in 2000 after a drug overdose — with ex-girlfriend Adeena VanWagoner.
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Kieran, who rose to fame with roles in She’s All That and Father of the Bride, has since been candid about sharing the spotlight with his big brother.
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