Kieran Culkin Wins SAG Award and Jokes About Adrien Brody’s Long Acceptance Speeches: ‘There Was No Reason to Take That Shot’

variety.com:

Kieran Culkin is no stranger to awards show acceptance speeches — so he isn’t afraid to call out his fellow winners for taking too much time on the podium. “Thank you for this incredibly heavy award,” Culkin said while accepting the SAG Award for male actor in a supporting role for “A Real Pain.” “I don’t think there’s any way anyone can hold this for 45 seconds… which is the allotted time, Adrien Brody!” He laughed before immediately clarifying that he was joking: “There was no reason to take that shot.

I love you. Take your time.” Brody, a frontrunner in this year’s lead actor category for A24’s historical epic “The Brutalist,” took the jest in stride, chuckling at the jab from the audience.

In “A Real Pain,” Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg play mismatched cousins who take a Holocaust tour in Poland to honor their late grandmother.

During his speech, which definitely went over the allotted 45 seconds, Culkin thanked Eisenberg — who also directed the movie — as well as the filmmaker’s sister, Hallie Eisenberg. “For those of you who don’t know, [Jesse] cast me in this movie without auditioning me or seeing my work or seeing me in anything ever… which he thinks is normal, and I can’t even get into how annoyingly wrong he is,” Culkin cracked on stage. “But he cast me because his sister told him to.