Although he auditioned over 200 other children, he knew that it was Macaulay Culkin all along who was meant for the part.
The producer’s instinct about Culkin obviously turned out to be true, as the movie was the highest grossing film of 1990 and earned a Guinness World Record as the highest grossing live-action comedy ever domestically.
Subsequently, Macaulay Culkin became a child star icon, and won the American Comedy Award for Funniest Actor and was also nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical.
Macaulay Culkin was also the first ever child actor in the history of Hollywood to receive one million dollars for a single movie, and that was in the movie “My Girl.”
In fact, it is because of such huge pay that he was actually referred to as a million dollar kid.
His fame skyrocketed after the success of “Home Alone,” and it was the 1991 tragicomedy “My Girl” in which he scored the million dollar deal. The movie campaign even used the slogan “Mack is Back” as a selling point for the film.
When he retired from acting at the young age of 14, his net worth was already over $11 million, which was more than enough for him to live a comfortable life for the rest of his life.