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Macaulay Culkin just wanted to stay home alone.
The actor, 45, revealed why he decided to step away from acting in 1994 after starring in the holiday classic “Home Alone” in 1990 and its 1992 sequel, “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.”
“What I wanted is to be with people my own age. You have to remember: a lot of the stuff I did when I was a kid… I’m not doing ensembles. It’s me,” Culkin shared while appearing on Mythical Kitchen.
“You’ll watch ‘Home Alone’ and I go, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m in ‘Castaway,’ except he had a volleyball to talk to,’” he continued, referencing the 2000 Tom Hanks film that saw his character living on a deserted island after a plane crash.
“People will be like, ‘Oh, what was it like working with Joe Pesci?’ I’m like, ‘Have you seen the movie?’ We do maybe two scenes together. And then me, in a house, by myself, almost home alone,” Culkin quipped.
In 1994, the child star led the family comedy “Richie Rich,” about a boy who has everything in the world except friends.
Afterwards, Culkin had the urge for a more normal lifestyle.
“I wanted to go out and I wanted to date girls, and I wanted to hang out with people my own age. I wanted to, you know, go to a party,” he detailed. “I wanted to do those kind of things. I can’t tell you how many bar mitzvahs I missed.”
Culkin compared fame to toothpaste, declaring that “you can’t un-ring that bell, you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.”
“For me, it kind of just happened,” he explained. “I didn’t really do a lot of tugging on my parent’s sleeve, saying, ‘Mummy, daddy, I want to be famous. I want to do movies.’ I kind of just started doing it and I was good at it and I kept booking it.”
Culkin simply fell into acting by mistake. At the time, his dad, Kit Culkin, took his older brother and sister to get headshots.
“And my mom just wanted a break and was like, ‘Take Mac with you.’ Out of the gate — My first audition it was just like, booked, booked, booked,” he recalled. “It’s funny, this is a line of work — I didn’t find it. It found me. That’s kind of why I came back around to it.”
Along with Culkin, Kit, 81, and Patricia Brentrup, also share kids Kieran, Rory, Dakota (who died at 29 in 2008), Quinn, Shane, Christian and Jennifer.
Following his hiatus, the “My Girl” star returned to acting with 2003’s “Party Monster.”
Meanwhile, in November, Culkin opened up about revisiting the role of Kevin McCallister in a “Home Alone” sequel.
“I kind of had this idea,” the star said during his A Nostalgic Night with Macaulay Culkin tour, per People.
“I’m either a widower or a divorcee. I’m raising a kid and all that stuff. I’m working really hard and I’m not really paying enough attention and the kid is kind of getting miffed at me and then I get locked out.”
Culkin’s on-screen son “won’t let me in.”
Instead of having robbers like Harry (Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern), Kevin’s own son is “the one setting traps for me.”
“I wouldn’t be completely allergic to it,” Culkin continued. “It would have to be just right.”
The dad of two also confessed that he and fiancée Brenda Song’s sons, Dakota, 4, and Carson, 3, don’t recognize him from the film.
“They have no idea that I’m Kevin,” Culkin teased.
During the show, the “The Good Son” actor shared some behind-the-scenes secrets from shooting.
Turns out, Culkin still has a scar from when Pesci, 82, bit his finger.
“He bit me during rehearsal,” he reminisced. “He said, ‘I’m [going to bite] these fingers off one at a time,’ and then sank his teeth into my finger,” Culkin said about the scene in question. “I was like ‘Ahhh!’ You should have seen his face because he knew he bit a nine-year-old. A nine-year-old coworker.”
Joking that he should have gotten “HR involved,” Culkin noted that Pesci did apologize.
“I was like, ‘Oh yeah, just don’t do it again,’” he described. “So yeah, it actually left a mark. It’s 35 years later, I still have this little divot right there. He gave me a souvenir. It’s a nice story to regale you guys with. It’s worth it now, but back then it was just like, ‘Who is this creep?’”