Kieran Culkin has reflected on the impact Succession has had in his career and has revealed that it was the HBO series that actually confirmed his love for acting despite being in the entertainment business for over 30 years.
Before Succession, Culkin was mostly known to wide audiences as the younger brother of Macaulay Culkin. Indeed, he acted alongside Macaulay in Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
He enjoyed success with two Father of the Bride movies and then transitioned into adult roles like with Igby Goes Down.
With Succession, though, it seems he has found the part that will define his career.
"I think because I've been acting since I was a kid, it was never something I pursued or ever properly chose to do," he responded to Vanity Fair when asked about comments made previously suggesting Succession made him realise he did want to be an actor after all.
"Maybe when I was about five or six, I said, 'I want to be an actor.' I was never quite sure what I wanted to do, which I think is normal. I just struggled with that for a long time. There were aspects of the job that I used to really struggle with, particular this kind of thing, doing an interview — I just didn't understand why, and I didn't like it and I was always very uncomfortable with it.
"There's some really cool things that come with doing the show, things that I've been completely spoiled by, like they almost never put marks down on the floor. Now, if I do a job and I'm doing a rehearsal and somebody puts a T mark on my foot, I'm probably going to be very annoyed. I don't often know where the camera is. It's just such a dream."
Kieran Culkin on fame
Culkin is now more famous in New York than in any other place in the world due to the fact Succession is filmed in The Big Apple.
As with every celebrity, he is now having to contend with notoriety due to his success.
"It's mostly fine," he said.
"Most people's instincts when they do like a double-take, the first thing to do is they reach for their phone and that camera comes out and they have to . Then there's the awkward moment of saying something like, 'Hey, did you take a picture?' when they will inevitably say no. And then I feel like an ass because I was assuming that they’re taking pictures of me. But the only part that actually bothers me is that people do that same exact thing when I'm out with my kids.
"That's just obviously a violation and I don't think people know it. I can say that because when I confront people about it, you can see in their face, they didn't realize they were doing something horrible.
"Like, could you imagine if I just went to a playground and started taking pictures of your kids? You think 'there’s the guy from the show, but I'm holding my daughter while I'm trying to order a bagel. And this guy is like three feet from me taking a picture of me. In that one particular case, I just got mad. I started yelling at the guy in the bagel place. Immediately, he saw what he did and he's like, 'I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.'
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