Kevin McCallister is 35. Cue the scream!
Happy 35th birthday today to Macaulay Culkin, the adorable little towheaded star of Home Alone turned towheaded actor, rocker, author and artist.
Not bad for a young life’s work so far, especially because the New York-based (eschewing the Hollywood scene, never a bad idea) Culkin appears to have overcome the more tragic pitfalls of former-child-stardom that tripped up so many of his contemporaries. And there were plenty of pits in which to fall.
“You know, I am a former child actor,” Culkin told New York magazine upon the release of his novel Junior in 2005, reflecting on his 2004 bust for marijuana possession. “I’m supposed to be a lot more f–ked up than I am. I took a certain amount of pride that I wasn’t that cliché, so it was, like, ‘Oh, great, I gave a lot of people exactly what they wanted.’”
(Macaulay, we would never root against you.)
Ultimately, though, he weathered the drama and emerged relatively unscathed on the other side. But back to the matter at hand, this 35 business. We suspected something was amiss when we noticed his little actor brothers Kieran and Rory also growing up, but it’s still mind-blowing to think that Home Alone came out 25 years ago, let alone that it’s star is now old enough to run for president.