Unfortunately for Culkin, Sex and Breakfast was utterly destroyed by critics, with John Anderson of Variety describing the film as "a tortured talkfest with a premise far less ripe than its title. After struggling to find acting roles, Culkin continued to indulge his weird, artistic side with a musical-comedy project called the Pizza Underground. The Pizza Underground mainly parodied songs by the Velvet Underground, with Culkin adding pizza-themed song names and lyrics. It seems to go without saying that the group never really took themselves too seriously, with percussionist Deenah Vollmer stating in , "We believe jokes are windows into truth, like pizza can literally create windows with grease.
The most notable moment of the band's career occurred in Nottingham in , when they were booed off stage. Apparently, some members of the audience took offense to the Pizza Underground's "mockery" of "one of the greatest bands of all-time. Continuing his subversive comedy streak, Culkin launched his own comedy brand in known as Bunny Ears , complete with website and podcast.
It's meant to parody celebrity lifestyle brands, like Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop. In an interview with Dazed around the time of the website's launch, Culkin mentioned, "There's a hole in the 'celebrity lifestyle' articles market, and we're filling it with fun, unique satire. The majority of Culkin's latest appearances have seen him showing up as himself or parodying his Home Alone character, Kevin McCallister. In late , three specific Home Alone -related appearances saw Culkin making light of his childhood superstardom.
Culkin stopped by the studio of popular YouTube channel RedLetterMedia to review the forgotten sequel Home Alone 4 , which unsurprisingly recast a younger actor as Kevin when it was released 12 years after the original.
Around the same time, Culkin joined another popular internet personality, the Angry Video Game Nerd, to run through the history of abysmal Home Alone video games.
Perhaps most famously, Culkin appeared in the Google Assistant advertisement that made many visual references to Home Alone , and had Culkin showing how much easier it would've been for Kevin to be left at home by himself if an internet-connected computerized assistant was there to help him.
Culkin clearly has a good time reflecting on the film that made him a household name. In , Culkin returned to the big screen for the first time in years, appearing in good friend Seth Green's directorial debut, Changeland. The film follows Green's character, Brandon, and his somewhat-estranged best friend as they travel through Thailand after Brandon discovers that his wife has been unfaithful to him. During their travels, they meet two wacky tour guides, Culkin's Ian, and Pen who's played by Culkin's real-life girlfriend Brenda Song.
The pair show them all that Thailand has to offer and repair the friends' relationship. Changeland was a small passion project that was moderately successful with critics, and it showcases the type of stuff Culkin is interested in making nowadays: a laid-back film that strikes him as worthwhile. Culkin seems to have little interest in mainstream Hollywood productions anymore, finding the creative control and small scale of his more recent movies to be way more rewarding.
Honestly, Macaulay Culkin seems content to live his life mostly out of the spotlight , hanging out in Paris where he kind of does whatever strikes his fancy. In , he said it's hard for him to live a normal life because he's recognized everywhere he goes, and fans on the street always want him to recreate his famous hands-on-face "scream" look from Home Alone.
He continues to have fun lambasting his childhood fame, including changing his middle name from "Carson" to "Macaulay Culkin" in late , as a result of an online poll on Bunny Ears. Culkin has made headlines for more sordid things, however, like his arrest for drug possession, and shocking photos that appeared to show him looking dangerously gaunt, inspiring rumors that he was addicted to drugs. In the intervening years, Culkin has since developed a more lighthearted public persona.
He joined a Velvet Underground parody band called the Pizza Underground. He started a T-shirt meme war with Ryan Gosling. By Yohana Desta. By Joanna Robinson. By Paul Chi. Photos: Awkwafina Does It All. I mean, they didn't even have a credit card. I gave money to my stage manager to take Macaulay home at night after rehearsals. Kit's life had been shaped by an ambitious stage mother who pushed her children into acting at an early age, with some success.
There is also a glimpse of him in the movie version of West Side Story. His career didn't survive into adulthood and he never got the big billing unlike his sister, actress Bonnie Bedelia, star of Bruce Willis's Die Hard movies , but he never lost his fascination with acting and, in time, he would begin to live out his frustrated dreams through his children. He had sent his eldest son, Shane, to an audition at Manhattan's Ensemble Studio Theatre, but it was his third-born, Macaulay, just tagging along with his big brother, who captured Billy Hopkins's attention and was cast in a play called Afterschool Special.
His precocious blond presence engaged the critics too, and after several other stage appearances, he moved on to movies, playing Burt Lancaster's grandson in Rocket Gibraltar, Farah Fawcett's son in See You in the Morning and John Candy's nephew in Uncle Buck, directed by John Hughes. Hughes was so impressed by Culkin's brilliantly bratty performance that he wrote a screenplay specifically for him, Home Alone.
Besides being a runaway success, the film brought out the worst in Kit. At home, according to a revealing interview with Macaulay on Marc Maron's WTF podcast, Kit was allegedly a domestic martinet, terrorising his children with punishing threats and humiliation. Macaulay told Maron he felt his father was "jealous" of him, because "everything he tried to do in his life, I excelled at before I was 10 years old". Whenever he and his father left to make a movie, Macaulay found himself "locked in a hotel room with a man who didn't like me", but at least it spared the rest of his family months of their father's cruelty.
Macaulay described how he walked away from acting after a series of box office failures. He told his parents: "I'm done, guys - hope you all made your money, because there is no more coming from me. Still, there could be no doubting he grew up fast, getting married at 17 to actress Rachel Miner. They separated two years later. Then came an eight-year relationship with Mila Kunis. Throughout those years, one of the only real constants in his life was his long friendship with Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris "she is beloved of me", he once said.
Michael Jackson claimed in the infamous Martin Bashir documentary that "many" children, including Macaulay, had slept in his bed but, as an adult, Macaulay dismissed the idea that anything untoward went on. Despite his disillusionment with the pressures of fame and Kit's overbearing personality, the Culkin brand was not entirely toxic in the years that followed the parents' split and Macaulay's withdrawal from the limelight.
Rory Culkin, who is 10 years younger than the now year-old Macaulay, appeared as the young Richie in Richie Rich and lived out his childhood watching people ask his mother to get him to do "that thing with the face in his hands" Macaulay's pose from the Home Alone posters. Culkin was six when his parents split.
He later told The Guardian he could barely remember his father. Kieran Culkin 36 played Macaulay's brother in both of the first two Home Alone films. He recalled seeing Macaulay surrounded by fans and paparazzi as a child, and it made him wary of fame. Kieran, too, had a fraught relationship with his father. The babysitter remarked to my mum, 'You know what's funny is their father's been gone for three weeks, and not one of them has asked where he is'.
Nobody cared, actually. My mum was the parent, so when he wasn't there, it was nicer and better. Of his large family, he added: "I have six siblings and we're all seven different versions of nuts, so definitely I draw on that. Kieran recently received warm reviews for his performance in the TV series Succession, which centres on the dysfunctional owners of a global media empire who are fighting for control of the company amid uncertainty about the health of the family's patriarch.
Dakota worked behind the camera rather than in front of it, serving in the art department in a number of movie releases.
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