Reason Kieran Culkin Missed The BAFTA Awards Revealed

Kieran Culkin is ever devoted to his family, even as he is to his acting craft, or perhaps even more so. Don’t worry, you’ll understand why I made this statement in a moment or two. But first, let’s talk skipping the BAFTAs.

Kieran Culkin Skipped the BAFTAs For This Major Reason

Kieran Culkin is heading into the Oscars season with a handful of awards he’s received for his role in “A Real Pain.”

Even though the star took home the award for best supporting actor – an award he wrangled from the hands of fellow stars like Yura Borisov, Clarence Maclin, Edward Norton, Guy Pearce and Jeremy Strong – he sadly wasn’t present in the room to receive the award.

We might not have gotten a speech from him, but we did get beautiful and heartwarming details about his life and the passions that drive him from the director of “A Real Pain” Jesse Eisenberg.

The filmmaker, who had previously graced the stage to accept an award for best screenplay at the ceremony, said, “I know I just won an award, but this is also like the fifth award I’ve accepted on Kieran’s behalf… We have a similar life, but his is about 27% better than mine.”

Eisenberg added, “Kieran would love to be here. We spoke this morning. He’s in New York with a family member who’s quite sick, and he is so devoted as a family dad that he tried to drop out of my movie two weeks before we started shooting because he didn’t want to leave his kids.”

He continued to say of his costar, “He’s real, it’s beautiful and it’s admirable – his devotion to his family. He’s one of these lucky people who’s brilliantly talented, but who, for some random luck of the cosmos, has his priorities in order. So I’m so honored to accept this for him.” Wow, such high praise, and deserved too.

Culkin’s BAFTA would no doubt sit proudly on the shelf that houses his other awards for his “A Real Pain” performance, including a Golden Globe and a Critics Choice Awards trophy.

In the family drama, Culkin and Eisenberg are cousins reconnecting on a tour through Poland and deciding to honor their family’s roots, following the death of their grandmother.

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