Who is Kieran Culkin and why are ‘Succession’ fans cheering the actor on in the final season?

Macaulay isn’t the only member of the sprawling Culkin clan to have had a major cultural impact.. His younger brother, Kieran, who also appeared in the hit alongside his brother My poor angel (1990), today at the age of 40 is one of the superstars of the dramatic series succession (HBO)That on Sunday nights he stuns his fans all over the worldwho rejoice every new episode of the fourth and final season.

Only two years younger than Macaulay in his role as Roman, the troubled heir to media mogul Logan Roy.has already earned him two Emmy Award nominations and three nominations for the prestigious Golden Globes.

Although still not equal to the audience of the house of the dragon (also from HBO), the premiere of the first episode of the fourth season of Succession, reached 2.3 million viewers (split between your cable signal and subscribers to HBO Max) on Sunday, March 26. The last episode of those who are part of this season will air next Sunday, May 28.

Created by Jesse Armstrong, The series explores themes of power and family dynamics through the eyes of patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and his four adult children. Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Siobhan (Sarah Snook), Roman (Kieran Culkin), and Connor (Alan Ruck).

The final episode of the series will air next Sunday, May 28, and is expected to run longer, “almost like a little movie,” the makers said of the result.

In this latest installment, the sale of media conglomerate Waystar Royco to tech visionary Lukas Matsson comes ever closer. But the prospect of that seismic sale causes existential dread and family division among the Roys as they anticipate what their lives will be like once the deal is done. A power struggle ensues as the family weighs a future in which cultural and political weight is severely reduced.

The fourth season debuted to critical acclaim, with Vulture calling it “a shining example of television’s best qualities”, while Variety stated that the series “outdoes itself again”. While the three previous seasons of succession have earned 48 Emmy nominations and 13 wins, including Outstanding Drama Series.

“I remember making the decision to treat this man (Roman) as someone who believes he will never suffer the consequences. He never had to deal with the consequences. So that explains his lack of filter and the fact that nothing matters to him because he will always be okay no matter what, he thinks he’s impenetrable.Culkin describes his character.

fame in adulthood

Unlike Macaulay, Kieran today enjoys worldwide recognition in a much more stable phase of his life: is married to british Jazz Charton with whom he has two children: Kinsey and Wilder.

Naturally, Kieran also had to navigate the dark depths of a Hollywood celebrity and chaotic showbiz family. and perhaps for this reason, despite being considered by his peers An extraordinary actor, even a generational talent, Kieran has actively resisted the lure of stardom for nearly three decades.

An attitude that is completely far from that of his character Succession, probably the most irresponsible and rampant of the Roys. as collected The Hollywood Reporter, Kieran could see what fame and attention must be like. “She doesn’t drive me, I drive her.”

“I’m trying to remember the exact moment when fame hit me,” he told that medium. “I think it was at the end of the first season. I remember coming home and thinking, ‘This is what I want to do with my life. I think I want to be an actor‘. I was about 36 years old. I’ve been doing it for 30 years.”

Now he can handle it, because at the age of 9 when he was part of the cast father of the bride (1991) was very lonely for her at the Sheraton Universal, where she stayed for three months with her father, Kitas the only company.

Another project that marked his career was the work of Kenneth Lonergan This is our youth (2003) and the movie Igby goes down and that earned him his first Golden Globe nomination at the age of 19.

In 2016, Culkin’s agent sent him the pilot script succession and asked her to read for bumbling cousin Greg (a role eventually landed by Nicholas Braun). Culkin instead taped three scenes of Roman and sent them off. Jesse Armstrong she knew she had found her Roman as soon as she saw the Culkin tape.