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Kieran Culkin on pranks, parenting and why his famous family doesn’t need therapy: ‘Us siblings, we’re already cooked’

He’s been on screen since he was seven – but only prepares for a scene 10 minutes before. Yet somehow the mischievous Succession star is now tipped for an Oscar. How did the chaotic, charismatic actor do it?

He also adds, maybe because he doesn’t want to sound like a douche, that the way his brain works means he has to learn his lines rocket speed (an eidetic method that startled even Brian Cox, the veteran actor who played Logan Roy). Or a few weeks ago when he turned up at the 92NY – the Manhattan institution at the centre of controversy after it cancelled a Pulitzer prize-winning author for criticising Israel – dressed in black and wearing red, green and white plasters on his fingers, which happen to be the colours of the Palestinian flag. In early shots of them roaming New York City together they look like teenagers – him in a Goonies T-shirt, her in leggings and Marant wedge trainers – and until recently, when they moved to Brooklyn because it was ridiculous to be in a one-bed with two kids, they lived in the same Lower East Side apartment he’d had since his 20s.

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