Macaulay Culkin just turned 35 years old on August 26 and many people still can’t believe that the years really moved that fast, still remembering him as the eight-year-old Kevin McCallister from “Home Alone” shown in 1990.
Actually, he was already 10 years old when he took on the role of the eight-year-old Kevin in the first “Home Alone” film so as not to confuse the figures.
After his successful stint as a child star, Macaulay Culkin decided to retire from acting but still took on a few roles every now and then before delving into music with his rock group called The Pizza Underground, whose music and whatever worth of fame it has, is primarily anchored on the music of the rock band The Velvet Underground.
Macaulay’s band actually parodies the songs of The Velvet Underground and changes the titles and lyrics by putting pizza themes on it.
Aside from being an actor and a rocker, Macaulay is actually an author and an artist too, cites E! Online, reporting that Culkin has overcome the more tragic pitfalls of former child stardom that tripped up some of his contemporaries.
In an interview during the release of his novel titled “Junior” back in 2005, which reflected on his arrest the year before for possession of marijuana, Culkin said that he was a former child star so he was supposed to be more miserable than he was already then. He added that he took a certain amount of pride that he did not join the company of other former child actors who ended up having really miserable lives.
He said that his arrest only made some naysayers think that they were right all along about him, that as a former child actor, he will grow up and end up having a miserable life.
No regrets
But it seems like Macaulay Culkin has had no regrets even when he retired from acting. His connections in Hollywood may still be around, but it’s just that he’s no longer cut out to be an actor the way he used to be when he was still a child. He’s last movie as a child actor was “Richie Rich” when he was 14 years old.
Subsequently, he also appeared in a London stage when he was 20 years old in the play “Madame Melville.” Four years later, he also appeared as Mandy Moore’s brother in the film “Saved,” shown in 2004, which according to the International Business Times of UK, is one of his four best lesser-known films, or those wherein he is not a child actor.
He has also been linked to a couple of high-profile celebrities and none can be more famous than Mila Kunis. Macaulay and Mila dated for eight years and were even engaged to be married until they broke up in 2012. He has since been in a relationship with “All My Children” actress Jordan Lane Price.
His three other best lesser-known films include “Party Monster” shown in 2003, “Sex and Breakfast” shown in 2007, his last foray into film, and the 1994 mixed live and animation movie “The Pagemaster,” during his prime as a child actor.
Not a bad guy
When he was young and was still in the movies, Macaulay Culkin was known to take on the bad guys all by his lonesome armed only with his creativity and innovativeness.
Now that he is no longer an actor, the 35-year-old musician who believes he is a rock performer, Macaulay is getting into lots of controversy on the internet and he cannot do anything about it.
Late last year, reports came out that he was dead. He subsequently debunked those nasty rumors by posting an image of him performing with his rock band The Pizza Underground.
Late in June, Macaulay Culkin made it back to internet circulation again as he was compared to Dylann Roof, the alleged Charleston church shooter who killed nine people in the incident.