For many people, Macaulay Culkin will always be a wee youthful lad, left behind in his parent’s home all alone. That’s how I picture him and that’s how I’d like to continue to picture him, but Culkin will not allow it.
He is aging and he insists on everyone recognizing that, thus forcing them to grapple with their own mortality as well. Now that’s what I call an influencer:
It’s my gift to the world: I make people feel old.
I’m no longer a kid, that’s my job.
— Macaulay Culkin (@IncredibleCulk) August 26, 2020
It was recently Culkin’s 40th birthday. He didn’t exactly have a middle-aged meltdown online, but he did openly share some of the stuff he was thinking about, which happens to coincide with a lot of the things other people don’t want to think about.
Like the passage of time, the loss of youth, and the inevitability of losing relevance in this fast-paced world. So cruel!
Nursing home alone
— DashieXP (@DashieXP) August 26, 2020
What actually made me feel old is not that McCauley Culkin is now 40. It happened years ago when I showed one of my kids “Home Alone” for the first time and she thought it was stupid that he didn’t just call his Mom on her cell phone.
— You can’t take the sky from me (@wmlwarren) August 27, 2020
Been screaming in the mirror myself since I was this age. Keeps me looking young too. My wife hates it though. pic.twitter.com/zS34IbMLTN
— Grafangel1 (@Grafangel1RONIN) August 27, 2020
— Criminelle Law (@CriminelleLaw) August 27, 2020
Culkin currently runs a satirical website called Bunny Ears and has withdrawn from acting entirely, it seems. He is still very open online, obviously, and has a huge following that knows and loves him for more than Home Alone. When he suggested he might take up surfing and asked people to do a little Photoshop so he could figure out if it was a good look, they were very happy to oblige:
Do any of you have photoshop skill? Can you put my head on a surfer so I can get an idea of how cool I’d look?
— Macaulay Culkin (@IncredibleCulk) August 26, 2020
I gave you a very dignified farmer’s tan. pic.twitter.com/JUE8MWVU47
— Meredith (@MereLillian) August 26, 2020
a brief look into your surfing career pic.twitter.com/SLYrLuV7AQ
— linc (@lincnotfound) August 26, 2020
There you go pic.twitter.com/SK7PpaVBaS
— Michael Szydlo (@MichaelSzydlo) August 26, 2020
No need to thank me pic.twitter.com/DmJz53qape
— 1jovemtr00 (@1jovemtr001) August 26, 2020
— Brido (@Brido___) August 26, 2020
In a recent interview with Esquire, Culkin, who goes by Mack now, explained that he was famous at such a young age, it has kind of made him one of a kind. His retreat from public attention as an actor wasn’t motivated by anything bad. He just has his own row to hoe:
“People assume that I’m crazy, or a kook, or damaged. Weird. Cracked. And up until the last year or two, I haven’t really put myself out there at all. So I can understand that. It’s also like, Okay, everybody, stop acting so freaking shocked that I’m relatively well-adjusted. Look: I’m a pretty peerless person. If I was an accountant, I could look left and right, and there’s other accountants sitting next to me in the office. It’s not like that. It’s one of those things where, like, the cliché that we’re all snowflakes? That we’re all unique? Well, you know what?” Mack leans in real close, drops his voice, looks me dead in the eye, and says, with a smile I haven’t seen since the last time I watched Home Alone and Kevin McCallister smiled directly into the camera, “I actually am a snowflake.”
A snowflake that doesn’t melt under the heat of turning 40. It’s the rest of us who can’t take the heat.
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