Kieran Culkin interview in Esquire
On turning 40: “I turned forty and everything changed. Get a little paper cut on my finger; nine days later, why do I still have a paper cut? It’s just fucking slow now.”
On what made him choose the place in the East Village where he lived for 19 years: “I know it’s a stupid thing, but I wanted a sunken living room.”
On being an actor: “I had this unhealthy relationship with what I did for a living. I really wanted to do it, but I didn’t want to be successful at it.”
On his brother Macauley becoming famous at the age of ten: “Poor fucking guy. He was little and having to try to accept that level of fame as reality.”
Other tidbits:
He still refuses to speak to Access Hollywood (who did a piece on his family in 1997) or The New York Post who taught him that "The New York Post doesn’t always give you the fucking facts,” but on a few occasions they have managed to get quotes from him during red carpet press events when they didn't identify themselves.
On finally buying an apartment in Brooklyn last year: "The idea of having a house and cars and trying to figure out the school system and how to commute - that is very easy for most, I’m assuming, but I can’t do that.” (He also kept his apartment in the East Village and uses it as an office now.)
Claire Danes on Kieran after his 2002 breakthrough role in Igby Goes Down: “I can relate to that flinching. I experienced a version of it myself. It’s really daunting to be on the edge of your adult self and suddenly have a lot of attention and opportunity and not be entirely sure how to focus it.”
The Roy family toast according to Alan Ruck: “Here’s to you, and here’s to me / The best of friends we’ll always be / But if someday we disagree / Fuck off.”
Kieran's next project is a Holocaust movie set in Poland directed by Jesse Eisenberg.
Mark Mylod, who directed the series finale (as well as many Succession episodes), wants Kieran to do an action movie. “I thought, Who would be a really surprising person to drop in the shit and try to watch them survive? And I’d really like to watch Kieran do that.” Kieran said he'd be interested if it stayed realistic and he got the shit kicked out of him.
His true calling: “I feel like what I’m supposed to do is be a stay-at-home dad. That’s where I feel like I’m the most me. And anything that takes me away from that is wrong.”
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