He argued that the idea of something being “so Roman” is annoying.
“It’s like no, he’s actually just a person.”
If nothing else, it has completely altered Culkin’s approach to acting for the better.
Likewise, he recalled a certain incident when Culkin was on set as a kid.
“This woman ran up to me and said, ‘Are you Macluckly Macluckly?’
And I went, ‘No.’
She goes, ‘Can I get a picture?’
I said, ‘I’m not him.’
And in my mind, I’m thinking, ‘Nobody’s that.'”
Understandably, then, the actor has never been particularly comfortable being in the spotlight.
“I think it was at the end of the first season,” he said.
“I remember coming home and thinking, ‘This is what I want to do with my life.
I think I want to be an actor.'”
I’d already been doing it for 30 years."
Still, he got there in the end, and that’s what matters.
