Kieran Culkin is an incredibly talented, Emmy-award-winning actor, but he’s also, in the best possible way, a poster child for doing 100% at his day job and not an ounce more. Does he care if his movies do well? “Of course not, that’s not my business,” hein a recent interview. “If I were the producer, maybe I would care, but my business was to show up on set and do the job. What the response is has nothing to do with me, so I think it’s weird.
This attitude doesn’t come from a lack of concern over the quality or impact of his work as much as a fear of the type of all-consuming, life-altering fame that stars likehave gotten candid about in recent months. “I don’t personally know anybody that has hit a level of fame that likes it,” he said, which, anecdotally, really does. “I have a friend who became famous overnight and his horror story was realizing, ‘Oh, it’s too late.
Regarding awards and accolades, he continued, “That stuff is nice, but the real stuff is me being home with my kids, when I’m reading them books and singing them songs until they go to sleep. That’s the whole point of life. The rest of it I’m doing so I can get back to that.”