Kieran Culkin is revealing why he hasn’t allowed his children to look at his and brother Macaulay Culkin‘s beloved Christmas movies.
The actor, who shares daughter Kinsey, 5, and son Wilder, 3, together with his wife Jazz Charton, stars alongside his brother Macaulay Culkin, who played Kevin McAllister, within the 1990 film Home Alone and its 1992 sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in Recent York. Kieran played cousin Fuller. And while they were each children after they filmed the flicks, the Succession star recently told E! News that “there’s still some scary parts” for his young children to see.
“For the 3-year-old, there’s the tarantula [and] there’s the guy at the tip who said, ‘I’m gonna bite off all of your fingers.’ That’s scary for a 3-year-old,” Kieran explained, before adding that 2024 will be the yr: “We predict they is likely to be ready for Home Alone this yr. If not, next yr.”
Elsewhere this week, during an interview with the Los Angeles Times, the A Real Pain actor also looked back at his time filming the 1990 holiday classic, admitting that he didn’t fully grasp the film’s plot on the time.
“I had no idea what that movie was about after I saw it, and I used to be in it,” Kieran recalled of his first time watching Home Alone. “I used to be on the premiere, and I used to be dying laughing. It was the funniest thing I had ever seen. I had no idea what the movie was about.”
The Scott Pilgrim vs. the World actor added, “Devin Ratray, the guy who plays Buzz, lied to me and told me the movie was all about him, and I believed him. After which after I saw it, the movie’s cracking me up, and I am going, ‘Mac was on set on a regular basis. That is smart the movie could be about him.’”
Home Alone, which shot Macaulay to fame for his role as 8-year-old troublemaker Kevin, followed his character after he was mistakenly left home alone, and must defend his home against a pair of burglars on Christmas Eve.
