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Why ‘Succession’s’ Kieran Culkin Intentionally Turned Down Huge Roles For Years · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. For a long time after,
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  Speaker 1: Karen Culkin was primarily known as home alone child superstar
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  Speaker 1: McCauley Culkin's little brother. But now he's the Emmy and
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  Speaker 1: Golden Globe nominated star of HBO has hit Succession, and
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  Speaker 1: karen slow rise to this level of success was due
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  Speaker 1: part to a conscious decision he made to avoid the spotlight.
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  Speaker 1: After his role in the two thousand two Coming of
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  Speaker 1: age film Igby Goes Down landed him his first Gold
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  Speaker 1: Globe nomination and rave reviews, huge opportunities started to roll in.
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  Speaker 1: M kieren tells The Hollywood Reporter, having grown up in
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  Speaker 1: the business and witnessing his brother's experience firsthand, he turned
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  Speaker 1: them all down, saying, I wouldn't have been able to
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  Speaker 1: handle whatever kind of success or attention came with that,
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  Speaker 1: so I quite literally ran away from it instead. Karen
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  Speaker 1: outre to choose projects carefully. They didn't shine too much
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  Speaker 1: attention on him for years, until eventually he agreed to
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  Speaker 1: do Succession, saying at the end of season one, I
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  Speaker 1: remember coming home thinking this is what I want to
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  Speaker 1: do with my life. I want to be an actor.
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  Speaker 1: I was thirty six. I had already been doing it
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  Speaker 1: for the thirty years. Season three of Succession, October seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Holly wid