Kieran Culkin was feeling loose as he accepted his 2025 Golden Globe award on Sunday night — for a good reason.
“My wife and I did a shot of tequila with Mario Lopez. Definitely feeling that. The whole speech is gone,” Culkin, who shares two children with wife Jazz Charton, said to laughs. “Terrific Kieran, you’re doing fine.”
Culkin took home the statue for best supporting actor in a film for A Real Pain, from director and co-star Jesse Eisenberg. The actor noted that the first awards recognition he ever received was a Globes nomination he got “when I basically was a kid.”
That nom, for the 2002 feature, Igby Goes Down, would be followed years later by a long stretch of nominations for his work on HBO’s Succession, with his role of Roman Roy landing him four nominations and one win. He called the Globes the best regular date night he and his wife have, now that he’s a regular.
In A Real Pain, Culkin and Eisenberg play cousins who visit their ancestral Poland to honor their grandmother. “Both actors are wonderful, but Culkin is a sheer delight. He couldn’t have chosen a better role with which to show his range following Succession, particularly as the story progresses and we get greater exposure to Benji’s melancholy side,” The Hollywood Reporter‘s David Rooney wrote in his review of the film, which bowed a year ago at Sundance.
Culkin beat out fellow contenders Yura Borisov (Anora), Edward Norton (A Complete Unknown), Guy Pearce (The Brutalist) Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice) and Denzel Washington (Gladiator II).
Golden Globes producer Dick Clark Productions is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a joint venture between Penske Media Corporation and Eldridge that also owns THR.
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