Kieran Culkin luridly recalls landing role over his ability to simulate oral sex

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The “Succession” star, 42, recalled the intimate details of the casting on the Dec. 13 episode of “The Graham Norton Show.” Appearing alongside actors Daniel Craig, 56, Nicola Coughlan, 37, and his “A Real Pain” director and co-star Jesse Eisenberg, 41, Culkin chimed in during a conversation about audition horror stories. “I auditioned for the play ‘subUrbia,’ and the playwright was there — Eric Bogosian — and there’s a part where the character, Buff, has to mime giving a blow job,” Culkin explained. “And I got the part that day,” he added with a smirk before cutting off Norton and the audience as they began to laugh. “No — don’t.

Stop. ‘Mime,’ I said.”“[The playwright] goes, ‘You know what it was? It was the blow job,” Culkin recalled.“And I said, ‘Oh, why?

Did none of the other actors drop to their knees?’ And he goes, ‘No. You were the only one that cupped the balls.’”“That’s acting,” Norton responded as the crowd burst out laughing. “Always cup the balls!” Culkin added with a roll of his eyes.“There’s gonna be a dance mix,” Norton added, prompting Craig to nearly do a spit-take. “Cup the balls!

Cup the balls!” Culkin starred in the 2006 Off-Broadway revival of “subUrbia,” an anti-utopian look into the lives of seven youths who meet at the parking lot of a Pakistani-owned convenience store.