“Unveiled Family Secrets: How Kieran Culkin’s Covert Role in Home Alone Went Unnoticed for Decades!”

Ah, the holiday season is creeping in, and you know what that means—it’s high time to revisit the iconic movie Home Alone! No matter how many times we’ve curled up on the couch to watch little Kevin McCallister unleash his chaos on the hapless Wet Bandits, the shenanigans never get old. I mean, nothing screams Christmas spirit like a grown man yelping in agony after stepping on a nail…or a shattered ornament! But hey, as we dive into our hundred thousandth screening of this 1990 classic, let’s not forget to keep an eye out for a familiar face—Macaulay Culkin’s brother, Kieran, makes a surprise appearance that many overlook. Spoiler alert: he’s not Kevin’s sibling in this flick, but rather a memorable little cousin whose exploits provide a surprising setup for the plot! So, grab your popcorn—it’s time to unwrap the nostalgia! LEARN MORE.

Christmas time is fast approaching and that can only mean one thing… It’s time to rewatch Home Alone again!

No matter how many times we’ve seen it, we always love to watch Macaulay Culkin wreck havoc against the Wet Bandits.

Nothing quite says festive spirit like a grown man screaming in pain as he steps on a nail or a shattered Christmas bauble, right?

But here’s something to keep an eye out for on your 100,000th viewing of the 1990 classic – Macaulay’s brother is in the movie too.

Kieran appeared in the film, but not in the role of a sibling as many might assume.

Instead, the pint-sized actor played Kevin McCallister’s younger cousin. Yeah, that family had a lot of cousins to go around, but this one was particularly memorable.

He was Fuller, the kid who wet himself… You all remember him.

It’s that scene where they’re eating pizzas in the kitchen and you hear one of the adults chastise: “Fuller, go easy on the Pepsi!” Kieran, decked out in dungarees and glasses, gives the camera a cheeky grin.

Fuller McCallister loves drinking Pepsi… despite his bedwetting issue (20th Century Fox)

Overdoing it with the Pepsi might be the culprit behind the bed wetting problem, just a hunch.

Anyhow, it turns out that this scene actually helps set up the film’s central premise.

See, Kevin was meant to be sharing a bed with Fuller the night before the big family holiday to Paris. But once Kevin protests that he doesn’t want to share sleeping quarters with a bed wetter, his mum agrees to find Fuller an alternative bed.

Therefore, Kevin is up sleeping in the attic by himself and is forgotten the next morning in the rush for the airport.

Who knew that being a bedwetter would set up the plot to a holiday classic so nicely?

Hilariously, Kieran didn’t really grasp the film’s plot until he saw it in the cinemas.

Kieran Culkin admitted he didn’t understand the film’s plot at first (The Ellen DeGeneres Show)

Speaking to James Corden in 2020, he said: “There’s a part in the movie where there’s a kid who gets his head counted incorrectly and he goes, ‘Bye, bring me back something French!’ I thought the movie was about that kid.

“And it made sense when I saw it. I remember seeing it in the theatre at the premiere and I was dying laughing and I was like, ‘Oh, that makes sense ’cause Mac was on set all the time.'”

I’m not sure about you but I don’t think there’s much movie potential in the kid who got mistaken for Kevin and then went home.

Thankfully, we got the story about the kid who put a tarantula on a criminal’s face.

Merry Christmas!