Macaulay Culkin gets honest about taking a break from acting as a teenager.
In a recent conversation on Mythical Kitchen, the 45-year-old actor revealed that he quit acting at the age of 14 to enjoy a normal life.
“What I wanted is to be with people my own age. You have to remember, a lot of the things I did when I was little… I don’t do ensembles. It’s me,” Culkin shared.
Referring to his infamous holiday movie with Tom Hanks, he continued, “You go to watch Home Alone… and I say, ‘Oh my god, I’m in Castaway, except he had a volleyball to talk to.'”
He went on to say, “People will say, ‘Oh, what was it like working with Joe Pesci?’ I’m like, ‘Have you seen the movie?’ We might do two scenes together. And then me, in a house, alone, almost alone at home.”
Culkin, who is considered one of the famous child stars of the 1990s, said the idea was to step out of the spotlight and seek an everyday teenage life.
“I wanted to go out and date girls, and I wanted to hang out with people my own age. I wanted to, you know, go to a party. I wanted to do stuff like that. I can’t tell you how many Bar Mitzvahs I missed,”
About fame he said: ‘You can’t untie the bell, you can’t put the toothpaste back in the bell.’
“For me it just happened, I didn’t really pull my parents’ sleeve and say, ‘Mom, Dad, I want to be famous. I want to make movies.’ I actually just started doing it and I was good at it and I kept booking it,” he added.
