Macaulay Culkin knows how to keep the promises he makes.
After running a fan-voted poll in 2018 asking for suggestions for his new middle name, the actor honoured the winning vote and legally changed his name in 2019.
Appearing at a recent event in Long Beach, California, to mark 35 years of holiday classic “Home Alone”, the actor acknowledged that he had kept up his eyebrow-raising 2018 pledge. “My name is Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin,” he told the crowd.
It so happened that in November 2018, Macaulay appeared on “The Tonight Show”, in which he announced his plans to drop his former middle name, Carson, for a different option.
“I felt like, you know, I should probably spruce up my name a little bit,” Macaulay told host Jimmy Fallon at the time. “We’ve narrowed it down to five options.”
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Even though it was largely assumed that the former child star was joking, he offered fans a chance to share their opinions via an online poll on his now-defunct lifestyle website.
On Christmas Day of that year, he announced the poll’s results on X, formerly Twitter. “You voted and the winner is clear. In 2019 my new legal name will be: Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin,” he wrote. “It has a nice ring to it (if you like my name).”
During his appearance in Long Beach, Macaulay also revealed some of the other options suggested by fans, which included “The McRib is Back” and “Kieran” that comes from his brother, “Succession” actor, Kieran Culkin.
“Macaulay Kieran Culkin. That would be great. I love my brother. Between me and him, we have exactly one Oscar,” he remarked, referring to his sibling’s Academy Award-winning performance in “A Real Pain”.
Macaulay can currently be seen on “John Candy: I Like Me”, Amazon Prime Video’s new documentary about late John Candy, his “Uncle Buck” co-star.
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