From nearly killing the Wet Bandits to also almost killing the Sticky Bandits to trying
to kill Frodo, Macaulay Culkin’s career has been a morbid one.
The childhood star, our favorite angel with a filthy soul, was a Hollywood favorite for
about a decade before the tropes of childn actors reared their ugly heads and ripped
him from the spotlight.
Though we’ve seen him here and there since 2007, we’ve aimed to find out what the youngest
McCallister is currently up to in our latest Where Are They Now?
The early 90’s were a busy time for the young Culkin, starting with his breakout role
as Kevin McCallister in Home Alone.
The following year, Michael Jackson called upon Culkin to appear in his Black or White
video, which led to a long-term friendship that the media very quickly picked apart.
The young actor’s career continued to boom for the next three years, making him the most
successful child star of his time.
Culkin starred in childhood favorites including the larger-than-life follow-up to Home Alone,
The Good Son, The Pagemaster, the heartbreaking My Girl, and his last big role as a child,
Ri¢hie Ri¢h.
After a nine-year hiatus, during which he became emancipated from his divorced parents
and married and divorced Rachel Miner, Culkin made a comeback.
Surprising the public, Culkin appeared alongside Seth Green and Wilmer Valderrama in the 2003
controversial film, Party Monster.
A year after being in the spotlight again, Culkin was arrested for marijuana and a controlled
substance possession, for which he received three one-year suspended prison sentences.
His time in court was far from over, however, as he was roped into the 2005 trial of People
v. Michael Jackson, during which he denied all molestation claims made against the pop
star.
Through interviews, Culkin has admitted that he is happier being outside of the spotlight,
though that didn’t stop him from entering into an eight-year relationship with That
70’s Show starlet Mila Kunis and his current fling with All My Children star Jordan Lane
Price.
He also put his reservations about being in the public aside for a second reemergence
in 2007 with a role in Sex and Breakfast, a reoccurring spot on Kings as Andrew Cross
in 2009 and provided voice-overs for multiple Robot Chicken episodes from 2005 to 2010.
After 2010, with one final voice over for Robot Chicken, the actor disappeared again
until 2013, when he made the most fitting comeback possible.
To promote his latest endeavor, an underground comedy rock band named the Pizza Underground,
Culkin filmed himself eating a slice of pizza for nearly five minutes.
It was a quirky promo that mimicked the 1981 video of Andy Warhol eating a hamburger, but
it may have nothing on Culkin’s 2015 role in the new television series :Dryvrs.
The short depicts Culkin as a mentally unhinged Kevin McCallister, who shows the long-term
effects of what happens when forgotten by their parents twice as a kid.
Before Pizza Underground disbanded in 2016, Culkin died… or so the internet wanted us
to believe.
After hearing of his death, Culkin toyed around on the Pizza Underground Twitter, posting
images reminiscent of Weekend at Bernie’s.
Since 2016, Culkin has appeared in Adam Green’s Aladdin and even played himself in several
episodes of The Jim Gaffigan Show, but lately hasn't been taking his career very seriously
- not that he has to with the royalty checks he gets anyways.
In the most recent news the web has to offer, Culkin was spotted hanging out with his Goddaughter
Paris Jackson, daughter to late singer/songwriter Michael Jackson.
Though the 2 have always been close, a recent break-up has pushed Paris to seek bonding
time with Culkin, and engage in activities like painting his toenails and taking selfies
to post on her Instagram.
Now that we're all caught up to where he's at, it begs the question.. would you like
to see Macaulay Culkin become a YouTuber?