Joe Rogan - Macaulay Culkin on Growing Up Famous

sucker yeah a little closer little closer all right don't worry fellas dick how you doing very nice to meet you nice to meet you too you're remarkably normal oh thanks I know people are we struck at how normal I am am i it's like wow really I think my main issue the maze I guess seeing a famous child and yeah yeah that's a very unusual maze yeah my life is unique to me that's what I like to say you know yeah and I'm almost like a peerless person like to a certain extent there's not too many people I can look left and right and we you know I I'm like we have similar experiences yeah is there anybody that you ever contacted like Jodie Foster or someone who's made it through and seems pretty put together not really no no not really I mean it's kind of a weird cold call you know hey Jodie Foster such a small clan of people like if a comic called me that I knew you know they wanted to talk to me I would talk to them because it's such a small club gonna people I mean we do have our weekly therapy sessions yeah Elijah Wood Jodie Foster you know yeah like we all get together and yeah we we weep you know it's actually do primal screaming that's what we do I was describing what it was like I have a friend who Ricky Schroder who is you know obviously he was very famous for news young as well and my favorite theme songs TV theme songs and I was saying like the way you developed is not like the way the recipe calls mm-hmm like the recipe calls for you to have a childhood and try to figure out life and then become a man and try to find yourself and then try to find your path and by the time you be he became a man he was already famous and the same thing with you you were already famous as you were developing and learning yeah you know yeah III don't know exactly how to like kind of even describe it because it's always the way my life has been kind of thing I'll get in the same way that like a lot of kids like you know they go out and they you know catch bugs and place a lot baseball or whatever like yeah just like Alec that's the way it is like you don't really realize how unique the whole situation is until you have perspective because you have nothing to compare it to really other than I guess TV shows and movies things like that so I knew that my upbringing was unique you know I knew oh it knew it was different but at the same time it's kind of just it's not until you get some perspective some life experience until you really realize that oh wait this was this was particularly weird you know I think one of the aspects is particularly worried about it is a lot of kids that grow up famous they grow up on the set yeah and they grow up constantly around people who treat them very differently than everyone else it's not just that you're famous is that you're famous and you're also the complete center of attention mm-hmm like you're the reason why we're here we're here to do this television show we're here do this movie we're here to do this thing you're the star mm-hmm and that I think for a kid that's a very strange place to be yeah and especially look I mean I like when I was a kid like even before I started working I always liked being like the center of attention kind of thing that was - you know I was just I was very boisterous you know but uh but in general like I never really liked being fussed over when I didn't like you know like yet the hair makeup costume people like poking at you all the time and things like they actually wasn't a huge fan after a while of kind of like being that at center of attention you know it it does become a job after a while yeah yeah like early on you kind of just do what you do like that's like I was good at it and boom liked it in the same way like that you do look anything that you're like you like it's where the child labor laws don't apply to acting you they do do that yeah I'm pretty well-versed in child labor laws well how's that worked then it goes from state to state mmm they can work you like let's say like in New York they can work you ten hours yeah but it stop right there they can work you well if you can't get a job if they're eight that's what you're that's what you're kind of like that's what their limit is and at the same time you have to get three hours of schooling and plus an hour of lunch so really you're only you're available window is only six hours or something like that a day and then like that also in like in that six hours they're always like setting up the lights for the next shot and you know the hurry-up-and-wait kind of part of you know of things that's why I looked the second home alone it took like nearly five months to film because they can only I mean virtually every scene and they can only use me X amount of hours a day anything but that isn't that the only job that you can work when you're eight years old I don't know why you can't be a carpenter I mean I guess you can do modeling you know I mean but like some kind of performing arts kind of thing like there are dancers and so forth mm-hmm because I was a I was a ballet dancer before I was an actor really yeah yeah I did ballet for a number of years I'm a classically trained ballerina right here yeah that ballerina if you're a man I call it I say I'm a ballet dancer mm-hmm but there is a weird ballarino like that some of them use and I'm like I'm not okay I call myself a ballerina look I just like can't it's two bros like it's from Welcome Back Kotter so I did that for a number of years and there's a bunch of kids like in you know that do that and you get paid you do the work Wow so you know there are other I guess trades yeah it seems like it's show business though yeah yeah that's what I mean I think it's more than the Performing Arts kind of thing like you know you don't see a lot of kids working the coal mines anymore like that kind of thing yeah for good reason all right but some people think that by six-year-olds dying a black lung you know there's some horrible pictures from like the early 1900s of people actually working in the coal mine doing their little tiny kids yep yep yeah I mean there are no Newsies anymore you know look yeah did you have any say in whether or not you worked when you were young not really no hmm look it was after a while it became like I said a job and it was I like I never chose the projects yeah they were like my parents I can you essentially like chose them for me so yeah exactly you know yeah yeah they called you know class and like I never read any two scripts look I would I would just read like the lines for like the next day or whatever like I would like get the gist of what the movie was about but then I just kind of show up and hit my marks find my light you know you know and and recite my lines real it's kind of just like again it's what you do right like it's like in the same way that like like kids go to like school or something like that like you know you you you follow to a routine to a certain extent yeah well that's the thing about the human mind right so flexible mhm you could adopt any sort of weird scenario especially when you're a kid I mean okay you just bounce look all the time it's adapt so easy exactly exactly and I always had like a good memory and things like that like you know I liked you know I was I was big and charismatic and I like had a good memory like so I could remember my lines like that's pretty much what like if you you know like not gonna give any advice to any people about like yeah you should put your kid into this line of work but at the same time like what producers really care about is whether or not you remember your lines but they like people you never work with kids or animals kind of thing yeah it's like yeah and they want they they really all they really care about is you remember your lines really like because apparently that's a problem like for me never was look if I ever lost my place I would just see the script in my head and just read it look I think I kind of had a photographic memory back then oh it's faded now I'm 37 I'm about to be 38 in like two weeks feels weird doesn't it yeah you know yeah look uh my my bowels are different [Laughter]

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Length: 7min 54sec (474 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 07 2018