A very young Macaulay Culkin appeared 35 years ago for the first time on screen thanks to his leading role in alone at home (1990). More than three decades later, the actor’s story—both personal and professional—continues to reflect the lights and shadows of a childhood marked by fame and family and media pressure. After years of maintaining a low profile out of his own desire, Culkin (New York, 45 years old) gradually returned to public life, carefully choosing when and how to show himself, and always with humor as his flag. Coinciding with the 35th anniversary of the premiere of the film that catapulted him to stardom, the interpreter wanted to remind his followers of a relevant fact for him: what his real name actually is.
During the event A Nostalgic Night with Macaulay Culkinwhich commemorated the premiere of the successful film in Long Beach last Saturday, November 22, the interpreter said that his name is “Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin,” and that he was previously Macaulay Carson Culkin. He made the legal name change in 2019 after conducting a survey in which his followers on social networks were able to vote to change his middle name. This form was announced in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in November 2018. A month later, in December of that same year, he shared with his followers the result of the vote: he was going to change Carson for Macaulay Culkin.
Options included “The McRib is Back” and “Kieran”, as a nod to his little brother, and today also a renowned actor. “Macaulay Kieran Culkin. That would have been great. I love my brother. “Between him and I we have exactly one Oscar,” he stated in the quote, in relation to the award that Kieran won at the last edition of the Academy Awards for his role in a real pain. “If someone comes up to me at the airport and asks, ‘Excuse me, are you Macaulay Culkin?’, I can say, ‘Well, Macaulay Culkin is my middle name,’” he said with a laugh. And he added: “I did it all for the joke. And a little for Fallon.”
This meeting with followers included a screening of alone at home and a moderated question and answer session with the protagonist, as well as a trivia game for children.
His relationship with actress Brenda Song and the birth of his two children, Dakota, four years old, and Carson, two, have helped in recent years to reinforce the image of a more mature Culkin focused on his private and family life, although he has not forgotten his past either. In fact, he has revealed that his firstborn mixes his own memories with those he has seen of his father on the small screen. “He thinks he’s Kevin. I asked him: ‘Do you remember going down the stairs on the sleigh?’. He said: ‘Yes, of course.’ I asked him: ‘Do you remember when you had yellow hair?’ AND! News in 2024. The little boy even believes that he himself “fought against the thieves”: “You are a liar who lies. That was me!” he jokingly reproached the little boy.
Unlike Kieran, who did not want his children to see the film in which he also has a small cameo, Macaulay believes that sitting with them and explaining everything that happens has been very useful. “They can’t really follow the story, so I told them the story as it was happening,” he added in the aforementioned interview. He is also sure that when they realize that the protagonist is their father, they will be speechless. “I’m a lot taller now. I have a lot more body hair, but yeah, that was me,” he added. alone at home has become a staple movie to watch at Christmas time, but it took a while for its protagonist to “embrace” it: “I’m accepting it and, at the same time, making fun of it. It’s more fun to accept it than to fight against it.”
Since he rose to fame, the actor has had to face the consequences of becoming a broken Hollywood toy: psychological abuse, labor exploitation, poor education and drug abuse. A time that is now behind us: “I am probably in the best moment of my life,” he said last March in the podcast Sibling Revelry by Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson.
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