“It was one of the very, very, very rare scripts that I laughed out loud reading,” Culkin said about the movie in an interview with Vulture in Oct. 2024. “It was that rare thing of, Oh, I know who this character is and I know how to do it.”

In “A Real Pain,” directed by Jesse Eisenberg (who also stars), Culkin plays Benji, a charismatic but troubled Jewish man on a Holocaust tour in Poland with his strait-laced cousin (Eisenberg) to honor their late grandmother’s memory.

Kieran Culkin is no stranger to awards show acceptance speeches — so he isn’t afraid to call out his fellow winners for taking too much time on the podium. “Thank you for this incredibly heavy award,” Culkin said on Sunday night while accepting the SAG Award for male actor in a supporting role for “A