“I was out of my mind?”… Useless worries for the’Alone Home’ kid

Kevin, the protagonist of the movie’I’m Home Alone’ that swept the world in the 1990s. Can you believe that cute little boy said this? In fact, this line was made by actor McCully Culkin as Kevin in a web drama a few years ago.

He once lived in seclusion to the extent that he even turned to’death’, he is actively communicating with the world these days.

In August of last year, it became a hot topic by saying, “Feel how much time has passed” and “I am now 40 years old.”

Recently, it became a hot topic with a tweet about President Donald Trump, who was impeached for the second time in the US House of Representatives. When one fan came up with the idea, “Let’s petition me to remove the Trump appearance from Home 2 and replace it with a forty-year-old Culkin,” Culkin replied “Sold.”

Was it the price of success too early? After wandering, he is meeting the fans again with a more relaxed appearance after the age of infidelity.

His success and wandering, along the way, the starting point of everything was the little’Kevin’ in the movie. Culkin, who only learned to live with Kevin, how have you been?

It’s hard to explain how great the success Culkin had been 30 years ago. Born in 1980 to a poor family in New York and started acting at the age of eight, Culkin became a top star earning $8 million per episode after hitting the jackpot with’I’m Home Alone’.

Even after the series’I’m Home Alone’, we achieved success with’Rich Rich’ and’My Girl’. It is said that the money he earned as a child has kept his life up to now.

Fifteen-year-old Culkin, commonly referred to as the’time of flurry’ At that time, he had already shot 15 films in a row and was’burned out’ like an office worker retiring early in his 40s.

Here, even his parents, after having a court battle over the property Culkin had earned, eventually split. At the age of 15, Culkin declared retirement and broke up with his father. It is because he forced himself into a murderous schedule and abused him.

After retirement, Culkin’s wish was to live a normal life. But enormous wealth and fame did not allow such a life. In 1998, a fire broke out in an apartment in New York where his mother lived, killing four residents and injuring 22. At the time of the fire, Culkin wasn’t even near the building, but due to his popularity, he had to face various lawsuits.

Is it because I longed for the affection of my family? Married at an early age, but he too did not end well. She married her friend and actress Rachel Miner in high school at the age of 18, and after two years of excessive media attention, she was destroyed.

Culkin has been a huge smoker since his teens. It is said that they smoked 60 cigarettes a day. Local media explained that smoking was’obsessive’ and was out of control. He also suffered from panic disorder. He later said, “I experienced everything as a teenager.”

In her twenties, after dating Mila Kunis for eight years, she was informed of her breakup and entered seclusion. I lived at home for about a year and a half, but at this time I was suspicious of taking drugs and even died. During this period, his half-sister and younger sister passed away one after another, deepening Culkin’s wandering.

In the midst of so many misfortunes, it may have been little’Kevin’ in the play that made Culkin the hardest. Because people around the world love and remember Kevin, there was no place for young and adult Culkin.

It is said that by the time the’Home Alone’ series is spreading annually, by the time of Christmas, he didn’t go out of the house at all.

‘Scary Moolgol’ was the way Culkin in her 30s showed herself to the public. It is said that there are many cases of Hollywood stars suffering from paparazzi. Whenever the grim hell was caught, an article titled “Kevin’s Shocking Update” would be circulated around the world.

Paradoxically, Culkin began to overcome Kevin that way. He started acting as a vocalist in a rock band named’Pizza Underground’ and devoted his passion to theater performances. In 2014, when he was 34 years old, rumors of death spread one more time. At that time, Culkin tweeted, “We are on a tour, dumb people,” and left a humorous picture.

In 2015, when he turned 35, he succeeded in building a new character in a drama that appeared briefly. He appeared in the web drama’DRYVRS’ and naturally digested the line saying, “If the family goes on vacation and has to fight two thieves in their home for a week on a damn Christmas day, how X would you feel?”

Netizens who saw this scene responded, “Why didn’t you cast him as the Joker?”, “I want you to play Kurt Cobain”, and “Please play a crazy drug dealer.”

It was then that he became a male actor in his 30s, not a’symbol of reversal’ that he couldn’t have seen in childhood.

A year later, Culkin responded to an interview with the British Guardian. It is said that it was an interview in 10 years.

“It’s very peaceful these days. I can discuss with people, and my heart rate doesn’t change,” said Culkin, who appeared in the interview with her long hair tied in messy clothes. I also said this. “I’m not going to change anything because I like me.”

Last year, during a magazine photo shoot after 20 years, “People think I’m crazy, hurt, or weird.” Take it. As you can see, I said, “Somewhere incomparable.”

Last Christmas, he tweeted, “There is a very good movie. Very good…” he even mentioned’Alone at home’. Not only has I overcome Kevin, but I think I have learned to recognize Kevin and live with him.

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