Kieran Culkin Wants to Celebrate His Win at Oscars 2025 by Having Four Kids

Kieran Culkin is celebrating his best supporting actor win at Oscars 2025 in predictably unconventional fashion. Once last year’s category winner Robert Downey Jr. presented him with the statuette for his performance in A Real Pain, Culkin shared plans to expand his brood with wife Jazz Charton and officially become a father of four.

After giving a shoutout to his former Succession costar and fellow category nominee Jeremy Strong (of The Apprentice), Culkin turned his attention to welcoming a third child with Charton. “I have to thank my wife, Jazz, for absolutely everything, for being one of my favorite people in the world,” Culkin began in his Academy Awards acceptance speech. “Please don’t play the music, because I want to tell a really quick story about Jazz. About a year ago, I was on a stage like this and I very stupidly and publicly said that I want a third kid from her, because she said if I won the award, she would give me the kid.” Culkin was referring to the Emmy acceptance speech he delivered in January 2024, after winning lead actor in a drama for his work as Roman Roy on the HBO hit. Added Culkin, “It turns out she said that because she didn’t think I was gonna win.”

Culkin currently shares two children with Charton, a daughter named Kinsey Sioux and a son named Wilder Wolf. In his Emmy speech, he thanked Charton before bringing up the idea of adding to their brood: “Thank you for sharing your life with me and giving me two amazing kids, Kinsey Sioux and Wilder Wolf. I love you so many and so much. And Jazz, I want more. You said! You said ‘maybe,’ if I win! I love you so much.”

But Culkin’s wife apparently acquiesced to the idea of having a third when confronted with her promise post-Emmys win. “After the show, we’re walking through a parking lot. She’s holding the Emmy, we’re trying to find a car. And she goes, ‘Oh God, I did say that. I guess I owe you a third kid,’” the 42-year-old actor recalled.

“I turned to her and I said, ‘Really, I want four.’ And she turned to me—I swear to God this happened—she said, ‘I will give you four when you win an Oscar.’ I held my hand out, she shook it, and I have not brought it up once until just now,” he said to applause within Los Angeles’s Dolby Theatre. “You remember that honey? You do? Then I just have this to say to you Jazz, love of my life, ye of little faith. No pressure. I love you. I’m really sorry I did this again. And … let’s get cracking on those kids. Whaddaya say?”

Culkin, who was widely predicted to win for his role in Jesse Eisenberg’s Oscar-nominated road trip dramedy, was the first of the 2025 Oscar winners. He previously said this to Vanity Fair about choosing the film as his first major project after Succession’s finale. On that show, “we were given that freedom to talk over each other and just throw shit at the wall and see what happened. It was so much fun,” he told VF. “I was scared going into a movie with a filmmaker who wrote it and was directing it. It’s his one vision, and to know that I’m now just doing that—we’re not all making this thing, we’re making his. I was a little bit afraid of coverage and pickup shots and fucking T marks and shit that I had been used to doing my whole life, [but] that we weren’t doing anymore on our show.”

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