Kieran Culkin Says He’s Looking Forward to ‘Turning the World Off for a Week’ to ‘Just Be a Dad’ After Sundance

• Kieran Culkin is enjoying his time at Sundance and also missing his family back home
• The actor has son Wilder Wolf, 2½, and daughter Kinsey Sioux, 4½, with wife Jazz Charton
• Culkin touched on his father’s guilt during awards season as he attended events with and without his wife

Kieran Culkin is looking forward to spending time with his family undisturbed.

The Succession actor, 41, was at Sundance, promoting his new film Real pain, but he thinks of his family at home. Talking to The Hollywood ReporterCulkin admitted that he is looking forward to some time off to be present with his little ones.

“Yesterday morning my wife took the kids home and then I flew here,” he told the news outlet on Saturday. Culkin has son Wilder Wolf, 2½, and daughter Kinsey Sioux, 4½, with wife Jazz Charton.

“I haven’t had a moment to rest, but I’m really looking forward to coming home. I haven’t really been a parent these past few weeks, which makes me feel like s—,” he admitted.

“It makes me feel like I’m not me. So I’m looking forward to turning off the world for a week and being a dad.”

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Father-of-2 Kieran Culkin says ‘I’m sorry baby’ to wife as he enjoys a kid-free night at the SAG Awards

While accepting the award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series at the 75th Emmy Awards, the actor saluted his wife and their family during his acceptance speech, thanking her “for sharing her life with me and for giving me two great children.”

At the end of his speech, he joked that he wanted more children as his wife laughed from her seat. “You said maybe, if I win!” he added.

After his speech, Culkin clarified to reporters that he had been asking his wife about having more children “for some time.” “Jazz said, ‘Maybe if you win an Emmy,'” he recalled. “I didn’t mention it for months, and then when I won the Globes, I said, ‘Do you remember what you said?’ And she said, ‘What? No. What did I say? I don’t remember this.'”

“I told her so, and then it all came back to her,” he continued. “So she spent the whole week nervous.”

Kieran Culkin with Kinsey and Wilder.

Jazz Charton/Instagram

In conversation with Taika Waititi for Interview last year, Culkin opened up about balancing his work and home life while filming the project in Poland.

“I have a 1 1⁄2-year-old and a 3 1⁄2-year-old, and we’ll be jumping around Poland. I don’t like being away from them for more than two days, and it’s not practical for me to have them all the time,” he said.

He went on to recall a conversation with a friend who had to travel away from his children for months at a time, saying, “I remember thinking, ‘You must have a very disconnected relationship with them.’

“Then I see him with his kids, and they’re still very close. I guess there’s just an understanding that dad has to go away for a long time. But I saw it and I was like, ‘Oh, okay.’ There’s still a chance to be a good parent and be connected to your kids even if you’re busy,’ Culkin said, adding, ‘But then again, my kids are between 1 and 3 years old. I have to be at home because if I go away for a week, they change.”

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