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Macaulay Culkin visits WIRED to answer his most searched for questions on Google. Who is Macaulay Culkin named after? What happens at the Home Alone movie tour? Can Macaulay Culkin sing? When did he host Saturday Night Live? Is Macaulay Culkin a nice guy? Mac answers these questions and plenty more on the WIRED Autocomplete Interview.
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00:00Hi, I'm Macaulay Culkin and this is the Wired Autocomplete Interview.
00:08Who was Macaulay Culkin exactly?
00:13Alrighty. Who is Macaulay Culkin? Named after? I'm named after I think Lord Thomas Babington
00:21Macaulay. He's buried at Westminster Abbey. I brought my brother there and I just started
00:26dancing. He was like, what are you doing? And I said, look down and I was dancing on Macaulay's
00:30grave. It was kind of a thing I did with my namesake. I'm Macaulay Carson Culkin, but actually
00:37that was the way I was born. My full name is Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin. Because if anyone
00:43asks me, excuse me, are you Macaulay Culkin? I can say Macaulay Culkin is my middle name. Check my wiki.
00:49Who is Macaulay Culkin going to play in Fallout? I wish I could tell you, but I'd have to kill you.
00:56What I can tell you is that it has something to do with Fallout New Vegas. No, he's an important
01:03part of who the ghoul and Lucy run into in Vegas, in the wastelands. Non-spoiler, it has something to
01:11do with Kaiser's Legion. That's right. I pronounced it just right. Okay, who was Macaulay Culkin in The
01:17Nutcracker? I was the prince. I was the prince of The Nutcracker. In the first act or whatever,
01:21I'm the prince. And then I become The Nutcracker, which is my nickname for Brenda at home. Just
01:26kidding. I don't call her. I have much, much worse nicknames. So yeah, I was in The Nutcracker. I used
01:32to dance ballet. Acting just was coming hard and fast and it paid more, which is a good thing because
01:39if I stuck with ballet dancing, I'd be a bitter ex-dancer, probably opening up a ballet shop and
01:46you know, some strip mall in New Jersey or something. In desperate need of hip replacement surgery.
01:51Who was Macaulay Culkin, stunt double, and home alone? His name was Larry, is Larry. He was a little
01:57person. He was much older than me. And yeah, I just remember I was doing my wardrobe fitting in the
02:03wardrobe department. And I turned the corner and there's just this guy and he's dressed exactly
02:07like me. I'm like, oh, hey, uh, hi. And like, he's like, hey, I'm Larry. I'm like, oh, hell, wow.
02:14Like, gee whiz. You're dressed just like me. He goes, yeah, I'm a stunt double. Because there's not a lot
02:17of like stunt kids in this world. I think that's because of insurance. Holy. All right. Can Macaulay Culkin
02:28sing? I can karaoke under the table kind of thing. I don't think you'd be seeing me
02:32playing Freddie Mercury anytime soon. I like to sing in the shower and so forth. Would you like
02:38me to do Take On Me by Aha right now in front of you? Because that's not going to happen because
02:43everyone forgets the high note and it always messes them up during karaoke. Can Macaulay Culkin
02:49drive? I've never had a driver's license before in my entire life. I'm 45 years old. I originally chalked
02:54it up to me being a New Yorker and that's kind of what New Yorkers do and so forth. But I haven't
03:00lived in New York in a long time. Brenda and I, we had this agreement. We don't
03:04make New Year's resolutions ever. And we made a New Year's resolution. I was going to get my
03:08driver's license and she was going to hire a wedding planner. We're not married. And yeah,
03:13I still don't drive. So when did Macaulay Culkin host SNL? Oh, I hosted it in 91. You know who my
03:20musical guest was? David Bowie. Yeah, that's right. That's how old I am. I kind of did it in a pretty cool
03:27year. You still had like the Dana Carvey's and the Phil Hartman's, that era. But you had like
03:33Mike Myers and Chris Rock and Spade and Sandler and all that kind of stuff. So it was a nice,
03:38it was a nice kind of bridge in the gap kind of thing. My father, who was insane,
03:43he made me do the whole show without cue cards. So I had to memorize the entire show. And the crazy
03:47part is, is that like, even when we do the rehearsals and stuff like that, there's still sketches
03:51that they don't make it to the live show. Yeah, I had to memorize those too. Needless to say,
03:55he made a lot of fans with the rest of the cast there because they had to memorize their lines
03:58too. Do you know what his reasoning was? My father's reasoning was, is that he hated when he could
04:03see somebody reading their cue cards like that. And so he didn't want me doing that. To each their
04:08own, I guess. And by their own, I mean his own. Macaulay Culkin. Tattoos. Yeah, I do have a tattoo.
04:16I have a matching tattoo with my goddaughter. It's a little spoon on my right arm over here. I steal spoons.
04:21Uh, it's a kind of a thing. She already was tatted up. She still is. She's a model. She's starting to
04:26go to like fancy parties and stuff like that. And I like, one of the advice that's Eric, don't ruin
04:30anything. Right? You know, when you steal a spoon, it doesn't really ruin anything. Don't forget to
04:34take something with you. Like, you know, when you go to these fancy parties or whatever, take something
04:38with you. And don't forget to put it up your sleeve. So we have matching tattoos up our sleeve of
04:43these spoons. My kids really love it because they still believe in magic and they're young enough.
04:47Like, palm a spoon and go, and I pull spoons out of my tattoo. So they think it's a magic tattoo.
04:58Oh, jeez. All right. Does Macaulay Culkin die in my girl? Gosh, spoiler alert. Jeez.
05:07For a 34 year old movie. Yeah, I died by bee sting. Also, I know that I make it sound like,
05:13at least be like, Oh, I got stung by a bee. Like, no, no. It was like a whole hive. They actually
05:17released a bunch of bees on me. That's not a joke. I got the part. And, uh, the only way that it would
05:23go through is that I did go to an allergist and get like test. Daycoms, all that stuff. They put the
05:28stuff on my fingers that smell like the queen bee. They're like, Oh, they're going to be attracted to
05:31your fingers. So they were like, just wave him in front of your face. They released like thousands of bees
05:36onto me that wanted to have sex with my fingertips. And I was a whole, uh, you know, just an innocent
05:4210 year old. That shit would not fly now. I'm telling you fly. I get it. Bees fly. It's actually
05:48one of those things. The bee handler warned me. He goes, uh, guess what? Bees fly slower than people
05:53run. And I said, does that count for 10 year old children? Does Macaulay Culkin like wrestling? Yeah,
06:01I love wrestling. You kidding me? I'm a lifelong wrestling fan. I'm actually a well-known wrestling fan.
06:06And recently I went to a, uh, uh, one of the early, uh, Raws when they moved over to Netflix. I got
06:11a big pop from the crowd. They showed me the audience. Woo. Yay. And then I was going out to
06:16the, a raw couple of weeks later and I was on the plane with a CM Punk. I was like, Hey, Phil,
06:21Hey, what's going on? I said, I said, I'm going to raw tomorrow. It's a good look in there. He's like,
06:25Oh, thanks. Thanks. Oh, he goes, I just want to let you know that me and the boys in the back, we thought it
06:29was really funny that you got a bigger pop than Roman Reigns from the audience. Did Macaulay Culkin
06:36buy the home alone house. No, I did not buy the home alone house. I mean, it would have been funny
06:40if I did actually, you know, it'd be funnier if I bought the house next door to it and then it was
06:45just mowing my lawn every day. Oh, you know, just like a cigar in my mouth. Kind of just like, you know,
06:50tummy hanging out. Oh man, I've heard things, stories about that house. Oh, I'd avoid that. I mean,
06:56it's been broken into so many times. I tell you what, you know, yeah. So I did not buy the home alone
07:01house. Although there was an opportunity there to turn it into some kind of Airbnb experience,
07:07including me. I decided to kind of steer away from the owning the home alone house vibe,
07:12I guess. But also, you know, let me know if you're interested in investing.
07:15Is Macaulay Culkin a nice guy? Yeah. I mean, are I pleasant right now? Tell me I'm pleasant.
07:27Yeah, no, I feel like I'm a nice enough guy. You know, yeah. I try to be courteous and professional
07:31when it comes to the work environment and stuff. And my kids like me. So, you know, there's that,
07:36you know, I go over really well with the three and four-year-old crowd. That's for sure.
07:40Is Macaulay Culkin a gamer? I used to be. I don't really have a lot of time for games so much anymore.
07:46Probably the last new game off the shelf that I actually played from pillar to post was Mass
07:51Effect 3. So, you know, I'm already kind of like, that's like a decade ago. Don't get me wrong,
07:55I still circle around, you know, I still do some of the Mario karts. I mean, the lady will lay in bed
07:59doing the Mario Kart thing every once in a while. You know, it's very sexy. I'm Tanooki Mario and
08:05and she's like peach, you know, like, yeah, that's just the game though. Is Macaulay Culkin. Friends
08:11with Joe Pesci. I mean, I'm friendly with Joe Pesci. I'm not even sure if he has a cell phone to be
08:15honest with you. He actually golfs with one of my neighbors who lives around the corner and I keep
08:18on saying, oh, you should tell him to just ring my doorbell. Honestly, it'd be freaking amazing.
08:22All of a sudden, just like, I look at my little door burr or something like that. He's like, hey, it's Joe.
08:25You know, it's like, oh gosh, you can come on in. I'd have my kids set up traps for him.
08:29And stuff, you know, he's 82 years old. I'm sure they go over very well with him.
08:32I have nothing but kind of things to say about him. He's a nice guy.
08:41Macaulay Culkin.
08:47Macaulay Culkin. Home Alone tour. Oh yeah, I'm doing a tour. I'm going around to a couple cities.
08:52We show the movie and you get to watch it with other like-minded people who actually also like the
08:56movie. It's one thing to watch it in your living room and just laugh at those jokes. It's another
09:00to be in a theater full of people that are also laughing at the same jokes. I do kind of a fireside
09:05chat slash Q and A afterward, which is a lot of fun. Tell you some factoids about the movie and
09:10everything. Sometimes I'll put your kids up on stage and ask them trivia questions, really bad trivia
09:15questions with really even worse prizes, but that are on brand. If I'm coming through your town, you
09:20should come see it. 35 year anniversary. So there you go. Macaulay Culkin. Halloween. Yeah,
09:25we love Halloween in our house. Last year I went as Joe Burrow, the quarterback of the Cincinnati
09:30Bengals because everyone says that he looks like me because I don't look like him. This year I asked
09:35my oldest, I asked him what he wants to be. He goes, I want to be Batman. I'm like, all right,
09:40cool. And what do you want me to be? Robin. And I'm like, okay, what do you want me to be? He goes,
09:44a toilet. I swear to God, he asked me to be a toilet. So I, uh, yeah, I dress as a toilet. The
09:50best dang toilet outfit I could put together with a plunger hat and everything. I have an idea for
09:55next year, but that's for next year. Macaulay Culkin. John Candy. I don't eat candy on the toilet.
10:01No. Oh no, nevermind. John Candy. Uh, yeah, the actor. Yes, I worked with him. I did three films with
10:07him actually. And also I was just in that documentary. Um, I like me. It's a wonderful love letter to him and I
10:12think it really did him justice. It's a nicer way to go out than, uh, Wagons East. The producers
10:17and everyone, they wanted to consider it his last movie, which I think is kind of apt. I think it
10:22really did, you know, again, it really painted a really touching story of him. Macaulay Culkin.
10:28Zootopia 2. Yeah. Me and my lady, Brenda, we're in Zootopia 2. We, uh, take a bite of that forbidden
10:34fruit. We play brother and sister. Meow. I'm doing the meow thing because actually we play cats in the
10:40movie. Usually when you do animated, uh, uh, stuff, you record in separate booths and they kind of just
10:45jumble it all together later. This time they actually had us like in the booth at the same
10:49time. Just kind of goofing off and stuff. I love doing stuff that I can show my kids and so they
10:53love this Zootopia franchise and, uh, they do not recognize their voices whatsoever because they're
10:58children of a certain age. Um, they just, you know, they don't like these, these bad cats.
11:03I'm like, yeah, someday you're gonna love these bad cats.
11:05What was Macaulay Culkin? That's what my mother's been asking for years.
11:13What was Macaulay Culkin? What was Macaulay Culkin's first role? Well, not counting some studio
11:18theater I did in New York. If you're asking for my first film role, it was in a movie called
11:21Rocket Gibraltar. It was Burt Lancaster's one of his last films. Had a bunch of New York theater
11:26actors like Bill Pullman, Patricia Clarkson, stuff like that. I just remember they, they thought it
11:31was really cute that like, oh, there's this, like, I think I was six, I was six years old. And like,
11:35I was sitting down on a little like director's chair, uh, next to Burt Lancaster was like, you
11:39know, 80 something. And, uh, then, you know, he thinks it's funny. He turns to me and he goes, uh,
11:45hey kid, do you have any advice for me? I'm like, he, he, he, he. I go, yeah, don't step on my lines.
11:51And he was like, all right, this kid's a goer. This kid's a good, this kid's going somewhere.
11:56What color are Macaulay Culkin's? Oh, I thought it was going to be about bowel movements. Okay.
12:06What color is Macaulay Culkin's eyes? They're mostly blue. It depends on what I'm wearing.
12:09Sometimes they turn a little gray, sometimes they turn a little green, but yeah, I got blue eyes,
12:13you know? Yeah. So what band was Macaulay Culkin in? I was in a band called the Pizza Underground,
12:22which is exactly what you think it is. It's a Velvet Underground cover band, but except we, uh,
12:26changed all the lyrics to be about, uh, pizza. So it's like, instead of waiting for the man,
12:30it'd be waiting for the delivery man. And instead of I'll be your mirror, it's I'm little Caesar,
12:35you know, things like that. It was one of those bands that was quite relentless. Uh,
12:38we would rhyme mushrooms with mushrooms before every show. I go, hey, you guys ready for some, uh,
12:42pizza songs? And the crowd go, yeah, great. Cause the hamburger shows across the street. We played Seattle a
12:47number of times. We played all over the place, but we played Seattle and about the fifth time we played there. I said,
12:51hey, how many people here were at our last show? And then 90% of the audience went, yeah. And I go,
12:56okay, get ready for the exact same thing. One, two, three, four. I mean, we hit our ceiling pretty much.
13:01I mean, it was a gig that had a shelf life, but it was a ton of fun. I got to play pretend band for a
13:05while. Them's all them boards. Not surprised you guys are asking a lot of those questions. I mean,
13:11it's funny because I don't know what questions you're going to ask because I already have all the answers,
13:15except for the poop thing. I don't normally Google myself. So it's a, it's interesting to see what you guys are
13:20fishing around for. Uh, yeah, it was good times. I'm going to get to keep those boards too, though.
13:25I'm taking those home with me.
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