Macaulay Culkin turns 40: A look back over his career over the years

Macaulay Culkin celebrated a huge milestone birthday on August 26 as he turned 40 years old and fans, well, they couldn’t get over it.

The actor, who is arguably one of the biggest child star’s the world has ever seen, is very much now middle-aged and fans of Macaulay were seen hilariously reacting to the news that he’s now a fully fledged grown up.

To be honest, we’re still shook.

Many fans dug out their favourite GIF of Macaulay as Kevin McCallister in Home Alone to express their shock, with one joking alongside a shocked Kevin: ‘My reaction to hearing that Macaulay Culkin is 40 today.’

Another fan tweeted: ‘Macaulay Culkin is 40 years old????’ while the news still hadn’t sunk in for one user, who said: ‘Macaulay Culkin is 40 today. 40.’

After all, when you think of Macaulay you immediately think of him as still around 10 years old, Christmas movies and classics like My Girl.

He told Vanity Fair: ‘When I was doing My Girl, they released a couple of hundred bees onto me, actual live bees. I knew that this was not something that every kid was doing. At the same time, it was just another day at the office.’

Macaulay also starred in The Good Son, Richie Rich, Getting Even with Dad, The Nutcracker and The Pagemaster, as well as Michael Jackson’s music video for Black and White.

In the four years between filming for Home Alone and Richie Rich, he’d appeared in nine movies and decided to take a break from acting in 1994 to try and enjoy something of a ‘normal life’ instead.

Return to acting: Changeland, American Horror Story and ‘disaster’ Once Upon A Time In Hollywood audition

After four years away from the spotlight, Macaulay decided to venture back into the film industry and appeared in an episode of Will and Grace in 2003, as well as a handful of films including Party Monster, The Wrong Ferrari and 2019 movie Changeland, where he stars alongside girlfriend Brenda Song and plays a drunk tour-boat operator.

In February, earlier this year, Ryan Murphy confirmed that Macaulay will be starring in the 10th season of American Horror Story, alongside Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters.

Reacting to the news, Macaulay tweeted: ‘I just woke up and saw I was trending,’ he wrote. ‘Can someone explain what’s going on? Did I die again??’

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Around the same time, Macaulay revealed that he’d actually auditioned for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino’s award-winning movie starring Brad Pitt and Leonardo Di Caprio.

It was his first audition in eight years and, apparently, it was a total disaster – his words, not ours.

Macaulay told Esquire: ‘I wouldn’t have hired me. I’m terrible at auditioning anyway and this was my first audition in like eight years… it was a disaster.’

In the same interview, Macaulay touched on why he chooses to keep himself relatively out of the spotlight, following the chaos that came with his days of childhood stardom.

‘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,’ he said.

‘It’s also like, “Okay everybody, stop acting so freaking shocked that I’m relatively well-adjusted.”‘

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