Trivia
Did you know that the scene in Uncle Buck in wich Mac's character is sitting in front of the mail slot and won't let Uncle Buck's girlfriend in the babysit inspired the movie Home Alone? It's true!
In 1990, Mac was invited by Michael Jackson, for spending time with his family at his Neverland Rench in California!
After Home Alone, Mac become the hightest paid child actor in history, receiving his first million of dollars for My girl.
He is a previous winner of the Harkness Scholarship in dance at the 92nd street YMHA.
At 11 years old, Mac declared that his favorite actor was Bart Simpson.
In 1991, when we asked him about the kiss he gave to Anna, in My girl, he said":be-e-e-erk!,we repeted the scene about 15 times!
In the set of My girl, Mac played a very bad preak to Anna Chlumsky by stucking double-sized sticky tape to the loo and Anna sat on it! Mac thought he got his tutor,he was going ye-e-e-e-s,then the tutor came in and he said: Aren't you in the bathroom? She said: No Mac, I'm right here!
Mac and Anna found a lucrative way of picking up extra money during filming My girl. The tiny terrors fined their adult co-stars and directors every time they swore. And according to director Howard Zieff, poor Jamie Lee Curtis was the biggest loser. "Jamie paid them 200$ apiece. They were hanging out the whole time waiting for us to swear" he says...
In the same set, Mac also tried to scare his tutor, into believing that Anna had been eating by an alligator!
Of his death scene in 1991's My girl, Macaulay told Time: It was easy, I just pretended that I was sleeping!
Mac have been one of the youngest animator for the talk-show SNL!
For his twelve birthday, Mac received a dog that he named Bishop.
In 1992, Mac was invited at the White House, by the president , Bill Clinton!
Mac was not the first choice for the role of Henry, in The good son, it was Jesse Bradford, but his father told the studio that if Macaulay didn't get the lead role, he would back out of the then-not- yet-filmed Home Alone2..
In 1994 Elijah Wood presented at Academy Awards in place of Macaulay after his dad pulled him out at the last minute, because he didn't appreciate a certain comment that Whoopie Goldberg had planned to say that compared Dad Culkin to one of the Jurassic Park dinosaurs!
Mac almost lost the part of Richie Rich for to Good Son co-star Elijah Wood, when his dad had a dispute with the movie studio producing the film
When he was in Chicago filming Richie Rich in 1994, Mac often frequented Virtuality, a local video arcade. Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam and Laser Tag were reportedly among his favorites.The assistant manager of the store told reporters that Mac was usually recognized by fans, though sometimes, he slipped right in and no one noticed!
Billy Hopkins, said that Mac was the next Jodie Foster, in 1995, he would cast him in the movie I love you I love you not, but changed his mind, because Mack was two inches smaller than Claire Danes.