Kieran Culkin Wins Oscar and Reminds Wife of Her Promise About More Kids After the Emmys: ‘She Said, “I Will Give You Four When You Win an Oscar”‘

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Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer Kieran Culkin has won the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his performance in “A Real Pain.” In his speech, he brought up the infamous moment when, after winning Emmy Award for best actor for HBO’s “Succession,” he asked his wife, Jazz Charton, to have a third child — which he did only because she’d promised to have another kid if he won the Emmy, not thinking he would. “After the show, we’re walking through a parking lot … and she goes, ‘Oh, God, I did say that!'” Culkin said. “‘I guess I owe you a third kid.’ And I turned to her, and I said, ‘Really, I want four.’ And she turned to me — I swear to God, this happened there’s just over a year ago — she said, ‘I will give you four when you win an Oscar.'” In the audience, Charton acknowledged that she had, indeed, made that promise. “And I have not brought it up once until just now,” Culkin continued. “I just have this to say to you, Jazz — love of my life, ye of little faith — no pressure.

I love you. I’m really sorry I did this again, and let’s get cracking on those kids. What do you say?” Charton, while laughing, mouthed an emphatic “No!” In “A Real Pain,” Culkin plays an alternately charming and exasperating Jewish man touring Holocaust sites with his uptight cousin, played by the film’s writer-director, Jesse Eisenberg.

With his first Oscar nomination and win, Culkin concludes his sweep of the category this awards season; he also won at the SAG Awards, Independent Spirt Awards, BAFTA Film Awards, Critics Choice Awards, the National Board of Review and the Golden Globes, among several others.