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  • 8/24/2023
Macaulay Culkin is considered the prototype of a child star. The actor became known to mainstream audiences around the world with Home Alone in 1990. But his film career is not limited to his first movie!

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00:00 Macaulay Culkin is considered the prototype of a child star.
00:09 The actor became known with Home Alone in 1990.
00:15 But his film career is not limited to his first movie.
00:22 Here we have 10 facts about Macaulay Culkin for you that are sure to surprise.
00:30 Fact 1.
00:31 The Home Alone films didn't just play a positive role in the actor's life.
00:39 The funny Christmas films made little Macaulay known all over the world, but also led to
00:45 an argument with his parents.
00:50 When Macaulay was 14 years old, his parents divorced, which resulted in a major custody
00:56 battle.
00:59 Fact 2.
01:01 His father was considered demanding and is said to have pushed Macaulay to shoot more
01:06 and more films.
01:10 Which is why Culkin was declared of legal age before his 18th birthday.
01:18 Fact 3.
01:20 After Home Alone, Macaulay was seen in the children's film My Girl, among other projects,
01:26 which only reinforced his reputation as a child star.
01:33 Fact 4.
01:34 After the role, offers became less and less frequent in the mid-90s, and the movie star
01:40 took refuge in alcohol and drugs.
01:46 In 2004, he even got into trouble with police over drug possession and was sent to jail
01:53 for a short time.
01:55 Fortunately, he's now feeling better again.
02:00 Fact 5.
02:02 To get away from his image as a cute child star, Macaulay took on increasingly provocative
02:08 roles in the early 2000s.
02:12 Like that of Michael Alig in the shock movie Party Monster.
02:17 Since then, Macaulay Culkin has appeared in films like Sex and Breakfast and Saved.
02:26 But he didn't have much success with those.
02:32 Fact 6.
02:33 Macaulay Culkin's girlfriend was fellow actor Mila Kunis for many years.
02:39 The actor and Ashton Kutcher's current wife were a couple from 2002 to 2011.
02:48 Culkin was previously married to actress Rachel Minor, and their marriage lasted only two
02:54 years.
02:57 He has been in a relationship with his Changeland co-star Brenda Song since October 2017.
03:05 The two have a son named Dakota.
03:10 Fact 7.
03:11 Macaulay Culkin and Michael Jackson were good friends.
03:16 Culkin even testified in favor of the former King of Pop at his infamous trial.
03:24 Fact 8.
03:25 Did you know this?
03:27 Macaulay Culkin is also a musician.
03:30 He covers well-known songs by Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground with his group The
03:36 Pizza Underground.
03:41 Fact 9.
03:43 The actor isn't the only star in his family.
03:48 Five of his six siblings are also actors.
03:52 Best known is probably brother Kieran, who starred in Succession among other projects.
04:01 Fact 10.
04:02 Macaulay Culkin was looking forward to a successful TV career, but things didn't always go well
04:09 for him in this area either.
04:13 In 1995, he was nominated for The Golden Raspberry as Worst Actor on Television.
04:21 Who would have thought that could happen?
04:24 Here's what's next!

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