Why Kieran Culkin Hasn’t Allowed His Kids to Watch ‘Home Alone’

Kieran Culkin is revealing why he hasn’t allowed his children to watch his and brother Macaulay Culkin‘s beloved Christmas movies.

The actor, who shares daughter Kinsey, 5, and son Wilder, 3, with his wife Jazz Charton, stars alongside his brother Macaulay Culkin, who played Kevin McAllister, in the 1990 film Home Alone and its 1992 sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Kieran played cousin Fuller. And while they were both children when they filmed the movies, the Succession star recently told E! News that “there’s still some scary parts” for his young children to see.

“For the 3-year-old, there’s the tarantula [and] there’s the guy at the end who said, ‘I’m gonna bite off all your fingers.’ That’s scary for a 3-year-old,” Kieran explained, before adding that 2024 may be the year: “We think they might be ready for Home Alone this year. If not, next year.”

Elsewhere this week, during an interview with the Los Angeles Times, the A Real Pain actor also looked back at his time filming the 1990 holiday classic, admitting that he didn’t fully grasp the film’s plot at the time.

“I had no idea what that movie was about when I saw it, and I was in it,” Kieran recalled of his first time watching Home Alone. “I was at the premiere, and I was dying laughing. It was the funniest thing I had ever seen. I had no idea what the movie was about.”

The Scott Pilgrim vs. the World actor added, “Devin Ratray, the guy who plays Buzz, lied to me and told me the movie was all about him, and I believed him. And then when I saw it, the movie’s cracking me up, and I go, ‘Mac was on set all the time. That makes sense the movie would be about him.’”

Home Alone, which shot Macaulay to fame for his role as 8-year-old troublemaker Kevin, followed his character after he was mistakenly left home alone, and must defend his home against a pair of burglars on Christmas Eve.

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