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Kieran Culkin Gives Kieran Culkin-est Interview Ever At 2024 SAG Awards

Kieran Culkin Gives Kieran Culkin-est Interview Ever At 2024 SAG Awards

Kieran Culkin showed off the sarcastic attitude that he and his Succession character have become known for at Saturday’s SAG Awards. Red carpet interviewer Elaine Welteroth claimed Kieran told her to “save it” with the compliments until the cameras were rolling, although he disputed this. “I said, ‘Shut up,’ actually, that’s what I said, not ‘save it,’” he quipped. “I have to hold the microphone? I hate doing this. And then you’re gonna say nice things to me? I don’t know what to do. And there’s a screen with my face on it that I have to look at?” Kieran previously admitted that some of the trappings of fame can make him uncomfortable. He tried to deflect Welteroth’s attention by outing her for being barefoot during the interview. After saying one of her shoes was “killing” her, Welteroth tried to revert course by stating “this isn’t about me.” Kieran, however, felt otherwise. “It’s kind of about you though, isn’t it?” he said. “I mean, it’s kind of your show and you’re only wearing one shoe …

Pedro Pascal and Kieran Culkin Make Up at SAG Awards Following 2024 ‘Feud’ (Exclusive)

Pedro Pascal and Kieran Culkin Make Up at SAG Awards Following 2024 ‘Feud’ (Exclusive)

Pedro Pascal and Kieran Culkin are publicly squashing their beef and potentially doing it with a kiss.  Talking with ET’s Nischelle Turner backstage from the 2024 SAG Awards — where Pascal, 48, and Culkin, 41, competed against each other in the Oustanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series category — the pair cleared the air and commented on whether or not they truly would be kissing at some point during the evening.  “You said we would make out,” Culkin told his fellow nominee and the category’s winner.  “I said that we would make out,” responded Pascal, who won the award for HBO’s The Last of Us.  “False,” replied the Succession star.  The odd but hilarious commentary is a reference to Pascal’s post-win interview with Tan France, in which he said that he would be kissing his competitor after finally besting him to win one of the major awards during the season.  “I’m going to make out with Kieran tonight. That will be my revenge,” he told the Queer Eye star.  During the interview with …

Crystal Palace fail with push to take Ipswich manager Kieran McKenna | Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace fail with push to take Ipswich manager Kieran McKenna | Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace have been frustrated in attempts to persuade Kieran ­McKenna to replace Roy Hodgson but hope the Ipswich manager could take over at the end of the season. Hodgson remains under pressure after the late defeat by Chelsea on Monday left Palace five points clear of the relegation zone before their trip to 18th-placed Everton next Monday. The Palace chairman, Steve ­Parish, is understood to have spoken to ­McKenna’s representatives but ­McKenna is believed to be unwilling to consider leaving while his side, in fourth place, are challenging for promotion in the Championship. Parish is a long-term admirer of the 37-year-old former ­Manchester United assistant, who moved to Portman Road in December 2021 and signed a new four-year contract after leading Ipswich to promotion last season. Any move for McKenna, who is also thought to be a contender to take over at West Ham should they not renew David Moyes’s contract at the end of the season, would require a club to pay significant compensation. Parish would prefer to wait until the summer before …

Kieran Culkin Talks About What It Was Like Working With His Famous Ex

Kieran Culkin Talks About What It Was Like Working With His Famous Ex

Kieran Culkin has no qualms about working with a famous ex. The Succession actor recently joined forces with his former girlfriend, Emma Stone, for the two’s new movie, A Real Pain. While Kieran stars in the film, Emma produced it through her production company, Fruit Tree. “She’s great,” Kieran of Emma during an interview with E! News’ The Rundown at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where A Real Pain made its premiere. “She’s a really wonderful person.” He also said there’s an unexpected benefit to working with someone you know so well on a project like a movie, where you can face a lot of unknowns. “It’s nice because you go into a job and most of the time you don’t really know anybody,” Kieran said. “But in this case, going in, I’m like, ‘Oh, OK, well at least that part’s taken care of.’” Emma Stone and Kieran Culkin pictured together in 2009 Bruce Glikas via Getty Images Kieran told Rolling Stone in an interview earlier this month that he finds it “funny” to think …

Jennifer Grey discusses working with Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin

Jennifer Grey discusses working with Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin

When Jennifer Grey received the script for A Real Pain, she was — like most of the country — deeply entrenched in the final episodes of Succession. The actress, who is best known for her work in movies like Dirty Dancing and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, was considering a role in the story (written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg) about two cousins who join a Jewish heritage tour in Poland to reconnect with their late grandmother and visit the town that she fled before the war. Kieran Culkin was already attached to star as the lead opposite Eisenberg, and Grey says she was excited about the possibility of working with the actor responsible for some of the show’s finest work. “And then I read the script, and I went from excited to elated,” she told THR during a panel at the St. Regis Deer Valley, sponsored by Screenvision. “It’s a very deep movie, about relationships and grief and loss and identity and resilience. Jesse’s tone is so human and accessible and vulnerable and funny. Immediately, …

Partying With Kieran Culkin, More

Partying With Kieran Culkin, More

Malia Obama stepped onto a red carpet last week for the first time with good reason. The former first daughter hit Park City for the Sundance Film Festival premiere of her short film The Heart, an 18-minute directorial debut that snagged a spot in the U.S. short fiction films program of the 2024 edition. The premiere screening happened on the fest’s opening day, Jan. 18, and screened two more times over the weekend. Malia Obama attended The Heart premiere and posed with her actors and short-film collaborators. Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images It wasn’t all work and no play for the 25-year-old daughter of Barack and Michelle Obama. The Hollywood Reporter learned that after her big premiere, Malia swung by the Neon party at Sommsation Wine Lounge at local wine bar Old Town Cellars on Main Street. With secret service in tow, Malia chatted with The White Lotus stars Fred Hechinger and Will Sharpe. Other stars at the event —  which featured Sommsation’s luxury wine-tasting experience with pours from Terratorium, Halter Ranch and cocktails by Hendrick’s Gin — included Billy Magnussen and John …

Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin Explore Loss

Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin Explore Loss

If you stick around for even part of some post-screening festival Q&As with directors, at times you can get the feeling they’re expounding on the film they intended to make rather than the one you’ve just seen. But Jesse Eisenberg is nothing if not hyper-articulate. He describes the essence of his delicate second feature, A Real Pain, as a consideration of “epic pain vs. more modern pain,” and how to reconcile the latter against something as monumental as genocide or historical trauma. What’s surprising is that he achieves this with a deft lightness of touch in a frequently laugh-out-loud funny odd couple road trip movie whose emotional wallop sneaks up and floors you. Eisenberg’s perceptive script — rooted in his family’s history — shares some thematic territory with the multihyphenate’s second play, The Revisionist, in which he starred off-Broadway with Vanessa Redgrave in 2013. It’s about the conflict of Americans grappling with their own troubles, however minor, while attempting to be mindful of the punishing experience endured by ancestors from traumatized cultures — a Holocaust …

Kieran Culkin on Being Directed by Jesse Eisenberg for ‘A Real Pain’

Kieran Culkin on Being Directed by Jesse Eisenberg for ‘A Real Pain’

Kieran Culkin is in Park City, Utah, for the Sundance Film Festival, but he’s still delivering mic drop moments on stage much like he did when he cleaned up at the recent Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards and Emmys. Culkin joined his A Real Pain collaborators at the Eccles Theater on Saturday afternoon for the world premiere of the film, directed by Jesse Eisenberg and starring the filmmaker alongside Culkin, Will Sharpe and Jennifer Grey. The plot follows mismatched cousins David and Benji who reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. After the credits rolled, the film got a standing ovation and the energy kept flowing through the Q&A with a slew of amusing moments. Top of the list is when Culkin described what it was like to work with and for Eisenberg. “There was a pretty good rapport right away,” said the Succession star. “But right after the first scene, he’d be like, ‘Cut,’ and start giving me notes. And my first thought is, like, bitch, I got notes for …

Kieran Culkin Didn’t Watch The Succession Finale For The Most Relatable Reason

Kieran Culkin Didn’t Watch The Succession Finale For The Most Relatable Reason

Kieran Culkin still hasn’t seen the series finale of Succession, but it’s not because he doesn’t want to. The actor, who portrayed Roman Roy on the hit HBO Max show for four seasons, said earlier this week that he experienced a technical difficulty while trying to view the last episode of the show, and sort of gave up. “I was in Poland and I couldn’t sign into my Max account. It was an app issue,” Culkin said during a Q&A with some of the cast earlier this week, via The Hollywood Reporter. “Then I went on vacation, then after that I was like, eh, that was like three months ago. I want to go back and see it,” he added, describing what sounds like a very Roman-like move. The series finale of the acclaimed drama aired on May 28 last year. J. Smith-Cameron and Kieran Culkin appear on stage at the Succession FYC Event at Paramount Pictures Studios on Jan. 16 in Los Angeles. Jeff Kravitz via Getty Images While Culkin has finally figured out …

How Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg Bickered and Grieved Their Way Through ‘A Real Pain’

How Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg Bickered and Grieved Their Way Through ‘A Real Pain’

As he got to filming his new movie A Real Pain, Jesse Eisenberg realized that he and his co-star, Kieran Culkin, didn’t exactly work the same way. Eisenberg was embarking on his second feature as a director, and the first in which he would also act; Culkin was playing his first role since wrapping a four-season run on HBO’s Succession, fresh off that creative high. Eisenberg had spent months working on a shot list for their expansive Poland shoot with cinematographer Michal Dymek (EO). He’d exactingly planned out each scene’s marks and blocking. A lot of that ended up scrapped. “Kieran is an unusual actor—he works really, really well as a spontaneous performer,” Eisenberg says. “On Succession we’d do the whole scene maybe seven or eight times, and then that was it. This was set-up 12 and take 40-something. I’m like, ‘What is this?’” Culkin adds with a laugh. “I felt like I was just making a fuss of nothing. He put me in the left seat and I’m like, ‘Why’d you choose that for …