Kieran Culkin Recalls Brother Macaulay's Early Childhood Fame: 'Poor F**king Guy'

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Kieran Culkin is recalling his brother, Macaulay Culkin's, early rise to global fame.In an interview with , Kieran, 40, traveled down memory lane and recalled Macaulay, at just 10 years old, becoming a phenomenon following his role in the 1990 Christmas classic.

Kieran said all seven of his siblings tried to get their foot in Hollywood, but it was Macaulay, 42, who did so first and at breakneck speed.«Poor f***ing guy,» says the star of his older brother. «He was little and having to try to accept that level of fame as reality.»Kieran said despite exploding onto the scene after just one movie, nothing else changed for Macaulay, as things remained relatively normal at home and in school.

But outside of that realm, things got downright weird, from people at restaurants noticing him to even a cabdriver following them home.«Even at that time, as a kid, I remember thinking, 'That sucks for him,'» Kieran says.Kieran, who appeared in  as the bed-wetting cousin of Macaulay's character when he was seven years old, told back in 2020 that he was so oblivious to the plot, he had no idea the movie was centered around his big brother.«I didn't even know what the movie was about when we were doing it, so it was a fresh, brand-new movie when I saw it,» he explained.

Not only did he not know the plot of the film, Kieran didn't even realize that his older brother was the star. «There's a part in the movie where there's a kid who gets his head counted incorrectly and he goes, 'Bye, bring me back something French!' I thought the movie was about that kid,» Kieran quipped. «And it made sense when I saw it.