His first gig was in a commercial, followed by a small part in the 1990 film Home Alone, which his brother, Macaulay, starred in.
“I can’t remember if it was Season 1 or 2 , but I remember coming home from work one day and telling my wife, ‘It’s going really well.
Culkin’s character, Roman Roy, is one of three self-involved adult siblings vying to take over Waystar Royco, the family-run media conglomerate, after their elderly father retires or dies.
So I kind of tried to stay out of the limelight as much as possible while I figured out what I want to do with my life and, in the meantime, I’ll just do this acting thing as long as I like it and as long as I find a project that I like.
I agree there’s a lot of extremely talented actors on the show, and a lot of them just work very, very differently and you get to see people’s different approaches and how they can all make it work.
I mean, I think in general, that’s always been a sort of natural word for me.
And I think when you’re a kid, you obviously don’t have the tools to handle something like that.
They can’t go out to a restaurant with friends because people are going to come to the table saying, “Oh, I never do this,” or “Sorry to interrupt.” …
But I think for the most part, it comes to people and they go, “Oh, I’ve made a horrible mistake,” and now they have to manage it.
I do kind of remember my father teaching me like in an audition, “You work really hard for the audition and the moment you leave that room, you forget about it because it’s not your job.
Now it is quite actually the greatest — way better than I could have imagined! It doesn’t matter how hard it gets.
It came to my part and he looked at me and I said, “Well, I haven’t actually looked at the scene yet.” So I grabbed the sides and I just sort of read it once and then we were called to set and we came in and we just shot it.