‘OH DANG’

Macaulay Culkin Reveals One ’90s Movie He Regrets Not Doing

The actor, who temporarily retired in 1994, later found a script in his house for a 1998 comedy.

Macaulay Culkin revealed one film he regretted not being part of during his temporary retirement in the mid-1990s. The Home Alone star, who put his acting career on hold when he was 14 after playing the titular role in 1994’s Ritchie Rich, said he liked the 1998 Wes Anderson-directed comedy Rushmore. “I was kind of voraciously reading through the scripts, but there was a couple that slipped through,” the 44-year-old said on Thursday’s episode of the YouTube show Hot Ones. “I remember about two years later, clearing out the house and throwing out the old scripts, and I saw the one that I didn’t read was Rushmore. I was like, ‘Oh dang.’” The role Culkin had been considered for ultimately went to Jason Schwartzman, and the film—which stars Bill Murray, Luke Wilson and Olivia Williams—ended up being included in the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. Culkin said that Schwartman’s portrayal was great. “But at the same time I’m like, ‘Oh man, that would have been a ball and a biscuit.’ I probably could have done that one.” Culkin returned to the big screen in 2003, playing the lead in the crime drama Party Monster.