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This is the story of eight seniors—Justin A. Erlich ’03, Kieran Fitzgerald ’03, Anthony J. Gabriele ’03, Samuel Graham-Felsen ’03 Christopher Roma-Agvanian ’02-’03, Aaron R.S. Rudenstine ’03, Daniel J. Stewart ’03 and Nicholas Z. Topjian...
...Kieran's childhood had plenty of real drama. The Culkins' father Kit is a former actor who had a reputation in the movie industry for taking an unusually aggressive interest in his children's careers. Of the seven Culkin children, only Rory, Kieran and Macaulay, all raised in New York City, are thespians today. But Kieran says he felt intense pressure from Kit to act, and to act the way Kit wanted...
...they pout and grin, there's one thing all child actors have to be able to do: relax. If you place an ordinary kid opposite Mel Gibson or Susan Sarandon and yell "action," he'll get as stiff and shaky as a screen door in a gale. Rory and Kieran Culkin, younger brothers of Home Alone star Macaulay, don't know from stiff. In this month's Igby Goes Down, in which they play the same prep-school rebel at different points in his life, they seem as at ease on camera as most people are on their couch...
...Kieran, 19, is even less daunted. Over Cokes at the same restaurant, different day, he doesn't come off as egotistical or spoiled, just brash. Burr Steers, who directed Igby, in which Kieran stars with Sarandon, likes to recount how he bagged the part: "Kieran comes skipping in and takes one look at me and says, 'You look like s___.' That was it. I knew he was the kid." The incident wasn't a big deal to Kieran, who shares Rory's pale skin and heavy-lidded eyes, which are useful for expressing boredom. "He had rings under his eyes...
...Kieran and Rory are unusual actors in that they learned their trade not through training but through exposure on the sets of Macaulay's movies. "I wasn't trying to learn from them. I just kind of knew what to do from them," says Rory. "I grew up on a set, basically." Kieran, who was old enough to play a small part in 1990's Home Alone, went through the same immersion. According to Steers, that experience produced a distinctive style. "They don't realize how technically skilled they are. You don't see the acting, the seams in their...