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.
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