The captivating charm of Kieran Culkin

The captivating charm of Kieran Culkin

Benjamin Hughes

For 42-year-old Kieran Culkin, visiting the building in Manhattan’s Yorkville neighborhood where he spent the first eight years of his life brings back unusual memories. “I remember my mom baking a cake and it would come out slanted because the whole apartment was on a slant,” he said. “We used to put cars on one end of the kitchen and let go and see them roll!

“We lived in a tight space where it was just seven of us running around. It was like a sort of little wolf-pack mentality,” he said.

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The directory at the former Culkin family residence on East 94th Street still hasn’t been updated, as Kieran Culkin shows correspondent Mo Rocca. 

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His father “Kit,” himself a former actor, and mother Patricia, a telephone operator, raised their seven kids in a four-room apartment. Kieran came fourth in the birth order. “Whenever the door would open to let the kids in, I used to stand aside and make sure, and I used to count to make sure all six of them got in before I got in,” he said. “That’s how I remember growing up, too, was I couldn’t fall asleep until they all fell asleep. Like, I only existed because they did around me.”

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Mo Rocca is an award-winning correspondent for “CBS News Sunday Morning,” where he reports on a wide range of topics. Rocca is also the host and creator of the hit podcast “Mobituaries,” and the host of the CBS Saturday morning series “The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation.”

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