Kieran Culkin Won’t Let His Kids Watch ‘Home Alone’
Uncle Macaulay is a monster.
At least, that’s the message that Kieran Culkin seems to be sending to his young children by refusing to allow them to watch Home Alone, the comedy blockbuster that starred his older brother. Ironically, Kieran was also in the movie as Kevin McCallister’s little cousin Fuller.
To be fair, it sounds like Culkin will let his kids watch the John Hughes classic — eventually. But Dad believes that daughter Kinsey, 5, and son Wilder, 3, might be freaked out at their current ages. As he told E! News, “There’s still some scary parts” that might keep the young’uns up at night.
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“For the 3-year-old, there’s the tarantula and there’s the guy at the end who said, ‘I’m gonna bite off all your fingers,’” Culkin pointed out. “That’s scary for a 3-year-old.”
It was scary in real life as well. “In the first Home Alone, they hung me up on a coat hook, and (Joe) Pesci says, ‘I'm gonna bite all your fingers off, one at a time,’” Macaulay Culkin told Rule Forty Two in 2004. “And during one of the rehearsals, he bit me, and it broke the skin.”
Despite Uncle Macaulay’s horror stories, “we think they might be ready for Home Alone this year,” Kieran said. “If not, next year.”
Kieran could take a cue from Macaulay, who screened Home Alone for his son Dakota when the kid was only two. “I already showed it to him last year, he thinks it’s so funny,” Macaulay told Entertainment Tonight last year. “I convinced my oldest that he’s the kid in the movie. I said, ‘Remember you had yellow hair? Remember when you were getting the bad guys?’ He’s like, ‘Yeah!’ He is such a liar. I’m like, ‘You don’t remember any of that.’”
Kieran, who wasn’t much older than daughter Kinsey when he had a bit part in Home Alone, admitted he was clueless about anything scary during filming. “I had no idea what that movie was about when I saw it, and I was in it,” he told the Los Angeles Times. “I was at the premiere, and I was dying laughing. It was the funniest thing I had ever seen. I had no idea what the movie was about.”
How do you act in a movie when you don’t even understand the plot? Just follow director Chris Columbus’ instructions. “‘Drink this Coke, wear the glasses, say the thing that you memorized, look cute and go home,’” he explained. “Devin Ratray, the guy who plays Buzz, lied to me and told me the movie was all about him. And I believed him. And then when I saw it, the movie’s cracking me up, and I go, ‘Mac was on set all the time. That makes sense the movie would be about him.’”
The lesson in all of the above? Kids are dopes, so might as well show them Home Alone. Kinsey and Wilder will probably laugh without understanding what’s happening, just like their old man.
