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Even with Better Luck Tomorrow, according to Lin, “Distributors said, ‘Hey, can you change them [your characters] to white kids? I know Macaulay Culkin would be good...
Kieran's childhood had plenty of real drama. The Culkins' father Kit is a former actor who had a reputation in the movie industry for taking an unusually aggressive interest in his children's careers. Of the seven Culkin children, only Rory, Kieran and Macaulay, all raised in New York City, are thespians today. But Kieran says he felt intense pressure from Kit to act, and to act the way Kit wanted...
...child actors have to be able to do: relax. If you place an ordinary kid opposite Mel Gibson or Susan Sarandon and yell "action," he'll get as stiff and shaky as a screen door in a gale. Rory and Kieran Culkin, younger brothers of Home Alone star Macaulay, don't know from stiff. In this month's Igby Goes Down, in which they play the same prep-school rebel at different points in his life, they seem as at ease on camera as most people are on their couch...
Kieran and Rory are unusual actors in that they learned their trade not through training but through exposure on the sets of Macaulay's movies. "I wasn't trying to learn from them. I just kind of knew what to do from them," says Rory. "I grew up on a set, basically." Kieran, who was old enough to play a small part in 1990's Home Alone, went through the same immersion. According to Steers, that experience produced a distinctive style. "They don't realize how technically skilled they are. You don't see the acting, the seams in their...
Jackson was seated in a box by the side of the stage, squeezed between Elizabeth Taylor and Macaulay Culkin. After lackluster performances by a Who's Who of mediocrity--James Ingram, Deborah Cox, Al Jarreau--the evening got weirder. Liza Minnelli, made up like a Joan Crawford female impersonator, performed You Are Not Alone with a gospel choir and then directed a few bars of Over the Rainbow to the royal...