Kieran

In recent weeks, Kieran Culkin has been racking up a number of accolades for his final season as Roman Roy in Succession, between his Golden Globes win and Emmys win. When one becomes famous and beloved for a role so great, it’s not necessarily the easiest thing in the world to transition out of that and be seen in a different light. However, after seeing Culkin’s next movie, A Real Pain, I couldn’t be more eager to witness the actor’s career following the hit HBO series. A Real Pain just premiered at the Sundance Film…

A dramedy that chronicles a tour of the Holocaust? Wait a minute, does that ring a bell? Nitesh Tiwari's Bawaal with its disastrous use of Auschwitz as a metaphor for relationship issues immediately comes to mind. None of that embarrassment occurs in A Real Pain, the new film by actor-director Jesse Eisenberg, which marked its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year. For all its playfulness and humour, A Real Pain strikes an intimate balance between the horrifying history of the Holocaust and the…

Kieran Culkin has had one busy week: along with winning a 2024 Emmy Award for his devastating work as Roman Roy in the fourth and final season of Succession and further making headlines for his funny "feud" with Pedro Pascal, the actor also had his new film debut at the Sundance Film Festival this past weekend: A Real Pain. In the upcoming dramedy, Culkin stars as Benji Kaplan, who joins his cousin David— played by The Social Network cast lead Jesse Eisenberg, who also wrote and directed the feature—as they travel to …

Over a nearly two-decade acting career, Jesse Eisenberg has established an energy so distinct you could describe the characters and the movies around them by his name – wordy, wry, brimming with nerves and discomfort. He can deliver a scathing deadpan, as in The Social Network, or a rapid-fire spit of anxieties, most recently in Fleishman Is in Trouble. He’s a natural fit for a certain type of small-stakes, character-driven indie dramedy, as was his first feature as a writer-director, last year’s When You Finish Saving…

Kieran Culkin stopped to chat at The Hollywood Reporter‘s studio during the Sundance Film Festival on Friday with his A Real Pain co-stars Jesse Eisenberg (who also wrote and directed the film), Jennifer Grey and Will Sharpe.  The Succession alum has kept busy for the past few years, winning a slew of awards for his role in the HBO show, including an Emmy for best actor in a drama series. Now that the series has ended, Culkin is looking forward to focusing on fatherhood.  “I’m really looking…

Kieran Culkin looks as though someone’s stolen a piece of his soul. We’re seated across from one another in the bustling lobby of the Pendry, a tony hotel in Park City, Utah, and the Succession star has just clocked a middle-aged man not-so-surreptitiously snapping several photos of him from across the room. He shifts uncomfortably in his seat and takes a sip of his pilsner before leaning over to me. “I’m feeling very… exposed,” he says, his voice a hair above a whisper. “And if you ask them, ‘Hey, did you just…

Kieran Culkin scored the Emmy on Monday night for lead actor in a drama series for his performance as Roman “Romulus” Roy, the foul-mouthed baby bro of the Roy clan, in the final season of HBO’s “Succession.” Culkin has swept the awards season this year, also winning the Critics Choice Award for actor in a drama series Sunday night and the Golden Globe last weekend. The actor known for his eyebrow-raising, off-the-cuff remarks gave a speech that was a departure from his norm. He was visibly choked up and shed a tear as…

Four Tet’s shows have never had such a clash of audiences. Some know Kieran Hebden as the grandfather of a certain introspective strain of UK club music; others know him as part of a trio – alongside Britain’s new UK bass royalty Fred Again and dubstep antagonist turned man-bun enthusiast Skrillex – who headlined this year’s Coachella after subbing in last-minute for Frank Ocean. As such, the audience tonight is loaded with uni students keen to see Fred Again and Skrillex, and fortysomethings wanting to hear Rounds. It’s…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeKieran Culkin has admitted that he has tried to get out of his next film project co-starring Jesse Eisenberg.The actor, 40, is currently starring in the final season of HBO’s Succession, which will conclude next Monday (29 May). You can read The Independent’s review of the penultimate episode here.In a new interview with director Taika Waititi, Culkin opened up about his next project,…

One of the most fervent topics of today is the state of housing. You can’t spend a day online without encountering one of the following: an image of a bathroom with a bed in it described as an “apartment”; a video of rats, mould or asbestos invading a property; the success story of a first-time buyer who benefited from the bank of mum and dad. With the discourse around home ownership, exploitative landlords and gentrification getting louder and louder, Kieran Yates’s All the Houses I’ve Ever Lived In has arrived at…