Kieran Culkin Finally Explained That Giant Stack of Bracelets He Always Wears

Style“If you just ask people for things, sometimes they give it to you,” the actor told Colman Domingo in a new Actors on Actors clip.By Eileen CartterDecember 20, 2024Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.Neilson Barnard/Getty ImagesSave this storySaveSave this storySaveIf you look at enough photos of Kieran Culkin from the last several decades (the Succession star has been acting since he was eight years old, having played the kid sibling of his real-life big brother Macaulay Culkin in 1990’s Home Alone), you may notice a recurring motif. There is almost always a pronounced stack of beaded and leather bracelets, sometimes numbering in the dozens, adorning the actor’s right forearm; his left wrist, meanwhile, is usually bare, save for some sort of nice watch.In a recent video from Variety’s Actors on Actors series, Culkin and Sing Sing star Colman Domingo sit down for a lively chat that begins with a discussion of Culkin’s longtime sartorial quirk.Domingo, gesturing to Culkin’s loaded wrists, asks, “Your bracelets, are they [symbolic]? Something your kids have given you?”“Some of them are kids,” Culkin replies. One, he says, he even bought “as an experiment” from a seatback shopping catalog during a flight.“This is a gift I bought on Virgin Airlines for my wife,” he explains, pointing to a multicolored beaded strand. “She didn’t like it, so I wear it now. … I was debating between a couple things and I was like, she’s probably gonna hate this, and if she does, I get to wear it. But at least I gave her a gift.”Getty ImagesDomingo—following sound journalistic protocol here—follows up by inquiring about the other bracelets, “only because [they’re] so significant.”Culkin runs down the beaded bracelets on his right wrist, identifying where each one came from: most from his children, others given to him by fans at events, one he got in Mexico with his wife. He adds that he received at least a few by simply asking the bracelet’s previous owner if they would give it to him, as though it were the shirt off their back.“It’s funny. If you just ask people for things, sometimes they give it to you,” says Culkin, adding that he’d collected this particular stack of bracelets over the course of about a month. Whenever his wrist fills up, he takes them off and starts again.“I love that you remembered exactly every one,” says Domingo.Culkin, it appears, has been practicing this magpie-like adornment ritual for decades now. (Same goes for his penchant for one-handed nail polish.) The meaning of the bracelets, the actor told Rolling Stone earlier this year, is “usually not that interesting. Some of them I take. Some of them people give me. Some of them I buy. Two of these have the names of my kids.” When the reporter explained to Culkin that plastic-beaded friendship bracelets have become a symbol of Taylor Swift and her fandom, he balked at the association.“See, I don’t even get the reference,” Culkin told the magazine. “People keep saying, ‘Oh, Taylor Swift…’ and I’m like, ‘I don’t even know what that means. I’ve been wearing tons of bracelets for, like, twenty years.’ They’re supposed to mean something? … I don’t know. I’ve never been to a Taylor Swift concert.”No doubt that if he had, he’d have been the wiliest bracelet trader the Eras Tour had ever seen.

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Kieran Culkin Finally Explained That Giant Stack of Bracelets He Always Wears
“If you just ask people for things, sometimes they give it to you,” the actor told Colman Domingo in a new Actors on Actors clip.
PARK CITY UTAH  JANUARY 20 Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg attend A Real Pain Premiere during the 2024 Sundance Film...
Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.Neilson Barnard/Getty Images

If you look at enough photos of Kieran Culkin from the last several decades (the Succession star has been acting since he was eight years old, having played the kid sibling of his real-life big brother Macaulay Culkin in 1990’s Home Alone), you may notice a recurring motif. There is almost always a pronounced stack of beaded and leather bracelets, sometimes numbering in the dozens, adorning the actor’s right forearm; his left wrist, meanwhile, is usually bare, save for some sort of nice watch.

In a recent video from Variety’s Actors on Actors series, Culkin and Sing Sing star Colman Domingo sit down for a lively chat that begins with a discussion of Culkin’s longtime sartorial quirk.

Domingo, gesturing to Culkin’s loaded wrists, asks, “Your bracelets, are they [symbolic]? Something your kids have given you?”

“Some of them are kids,” Culkin replies. One, he says, he even bought “as an experiment” from a seatback shopping catalog during a flight.

“This is a gift I bought on Virgin Airlines for my wife,” he explains, pointing to a multicolored beaded strand. “She didn’t like it, so I wear it now. … I was debating between a couple things and I was like, she’s probably gonna hate this, and if she does, I get to wear it. But at least I gave her a gift.”

NEW YORK NEW YORK  JUNE 13 Kieran Culkin attends the Succession Emmy FYC Screening  Panel on June 13 2022 in New York City.
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Domingo—following sound journalistic protocol here—follows up by inquiring about the other bracelets, “only because [they’re] so significant.”

Culkin runs down the beaded bracelets on his right wrist, identifying where each one came from: most from his children, others given to him by fans at events, one he got in Mexico with his wife. He adds that he received at least a few by simply asking the bracelet’s previous owner if they would give it to him, as though it were the shirt off their back.

“It’s funny. If you just ask people for things, sometimes they give it to you,” says Culkin, adding that he’d collected this particular stack of bracelets over the course of about a month. Whenever his wrist fills up, he takes them off and starts again.

“I love that you remembered exactly every one,” says Domingo.

Culkin, it appears, has been practicing this magpie-like adornment ritual for decades now. (Same goes for his penchant for one-handed nail polish.) The meaning of the bracelets, the actor told Rolling Stone earlier this year, is “usually not that interesting. Some of them I take. Some of them people give me. Some of them I buy. Two of these have the names of my kids.” When the reporter explained to Culkin that plastic-beaded friendship bracelets have become a symbol of Taylor Swift and her fandom, he balked at the association.

“See, I don’t even get the reference,” Culkin told the magazine. “People keep saying, ‘Oh, Taylor Swift…’ and I’m like, ‘I don’t even know what that means. I’ve been wearing tons of bracelets for, like, twenty years.’ They’re supposed to mean something? … I don’t know. I’ve never been to a Taylor Swift concert.”

No doubt that if he had, he’d have been the wiliest bracelet trader the Eras Tour had ever seen.

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