Maybe it's just because I've been doing it for a long time. I never and still don't pay attention to that. Any reasonable person would not, could not, look at fame and go, "I want that!" But I think for the most part, it comes to people and they go, "Oh, I've made a horrible mistake," and now they have to manage it. Some people probably enjoy it, and they probably have been able to figure out life with it. Īny reasonable person would not, could not, look at fame and go, 'I want that.' - Kieran Culkin They can't go out to a restaurant with friends because people are going to come to the table saying, "Oh, I never do this," or "Sorry to interrupt.". They can't walk down the street without several people stopping them. So to me, I always have known this is not something one would want to pursue. So I think it might have been pretty tough.įor me, I got to sort of experience it secondhand as a child. And I think when you're a kid, you obviously don't have the tools to handle something like that. And I think what people sometimes fail to remember, too, is that he was a kid. On witnessing child stardom via his brother, and how toxic fame is I'm trying to be careful now because my two-year-old daughter actually has become a mimic. But since doing the show, it's every sentence, more or less. I mean, I think in general, that's always been a sort of natural word for me. I would say the F-word just slides out of me. On how all the cursing in the show has affected his real speech But you see these little things going, "Is that Logan or is Brian just hungry? Can someone get him a sandwich? He's about to snap at you." Brian has Logan-y in moments, but for the most part, he's like just a wonderful guy and Logan is obviously not. There's elements of the real in the character, so it gets blurred a bit. I agree there's a lot of extremely talented actors on the show, and a lot of them just work very, very differently and you get to see people's different approaches and how they can all make it work. That's also really interesting on the show. Brian is a force to be reckoned with as a person, so he just brings so much that there isn't much effort I have to put forward. Just being in a scene with someone like Brian, there's a lot less work for me to have to do. On working with such a talented ensemble cast in Succession, especially Brian Cox, who plays patriarch Logan Roy I just enjoy doing work from time to time. I didn't necessarily pursue the acting career or success or anything like that. So I kind of tried to stay out of the limelight as much as possible while I figured out what I want to do with my life and, in the meantime, I'll just do this acting thing as long as I like it and as long as I find a project that I like. And I think around the age 18, 19, 20, I found that suddenly I had a career that I never decided I wanted, and didn't really like that. So I felt like I'd just been doing it since I was a kid and never actually made the choice to do it. I've been doing it since I was a kid, and I don't think when you're 6, 7 years old and you say, "Hey, mom, dad, I want to be an actor" that you're actually really making a decision for your future. On feeling ambivalent about being an actor "I kind of hope people like the show I'm on because I'm having such a good time doing it, so I want to keep doing it," he says. He'd finish a film or play and move onto the next thing. With previous projects, Culkin wasn't so invested in audience reception. "This guy grew up never having to suffer consequences, and so he doesn't really know what that means to suffer consequences." "Everything is dancing on a line," Culkin says of his character. Roman, the youngest brother, is known for his slimy sense of humor and casual zingers. Culkin's character, Roman Roy, is one of three self-involved adult siblings vying to take over Waystar Royco, the family-run media conglomerate, after their elderly father retires or dies. HBO's Succession is a comedy disguised as a drama about corporate power and greed. I think I want to be an actor,'" he says. I think I know what I want to do with my life. "I can't remember if it was Season 1 or 2, but I remember coming home from work one day and telling my wife, 'It's going really well. But it was only recently, nearly 30 years into his acting career, that something clicked. His first gig (when he was 6) was in a commercial, followed by a small part in the 1990 film Home Alone, which his brother, Macaulay, starred in. Succession co -star Kieran Culkin has grown up on screen.
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