Kieran Culkin is Ready to “Just Be a Dad” During His Post-‘Succession’ Downtime

Kieran Culkin quit to conversation at The Hollywood Press reporter’s workshop during the Sundance Movie Celebration on Friday with his A Genuine Discomfort co-stars Jesse Eisenberg (that additionally created and guided the movie), Jennifer Grey and Will Sharpe.

The Sequence alum has actually maintained active for the previous couple of years, winning a multitude of honors for his duty in the HBO program, consisting of an Emmy for finest star in a dramatization collection. Since the collection has actually finished, Culkin is looking onward to concentrating on parenthood..

“I’m really looking forward to it when I get home because the last couple weeks I haven’t really been much of a parent, which makes me feel like shit and makes me feel like I’m not me,” the star stated concerning his prepare for his pause after the Sundance best of A Genuine Discomfort.“I’m going to turn the world off for about a week and just be a dad. ‘Did you read the email?’ No, I did not. [I’m doing] nothing at all, except just diapers and bath time and stuff for like a week.”

Culkin saw a positive side in the months-long job break during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, as that duration enabled him to invest high quality time with his kids, Kinsey and Wilder. “It had been really…probably shouldn’t say, I don’t care… lovely for me. I’d been hiding behind it,” he confessed. “I’m like, ‘No work? Fantastic.’” He really felt similarly when he invested 2020 without job in the middle of the pandemic quickly after the birth of his child Kinsey..

“I get these, thankfully, these large periods of time where I get to just do that, and that’s where I feel like I’m most me,” he stated. Without an additional task aligned complying with A Genuine Discomfort, Culkin is fired up to have “a few more months” of downtime in the house once more.