Macaulay Culkin, Brenda Song and Dakota Song Culkin attend the ceremony honoring Macaulay Culkin with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on December 01, 2023.Photo:Amy Sussman/Getty
Amy Sussman/Getty
Brenda Songsays that after her now-fiancéMacaulay Culkinclued her in on the “behind-the-scenes stories” of his iconic 1990 film,Home Alone, it “ruined” the movie for her.
Song, 36, appeared on the Thursday, March 13, episode ofThe Jennifer Hudson Showto promote her Netflix seriesRunning Point.
Song — who danced through the show’s Spirit Tunnel toa modified version of theSuite Life of Zack & Codytheme song, a nod to her early role — said that when she started dating Culkin, now 44, she proposed the idea of watching the film during the holiday season.
“Christmastime came around — and it’s a tradition, I’ve always watchedHome Aloneevery Christmas,” Song said. “He hadn’t seen the movie in almost a decade — he didn’t want to watch it — and I forced it. I was like, ‘We have to.’ "
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Song continued: “We started watching it. And he started telling me all the behind-the-scenes stories. And I was like, ‘Stop. Stop. You’re ruining it for me.’ "
“The movie holds such a special place in obviously so many people’s hearts, it’s just hard for me, that’s all,” Song added.
Elsewhere in the interview, Song said she had to teach fiancé Culkin how to do laundry after they started dating eight years ago — and that she alsotried to teach him how to drive.
Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone, 1990.20th Century Fox/Kobal/Shutterstock
20th Century Fox/Kobal/Shutterstock
“It’s funny, teaching him how to do laundry, he still doesn’t know how to drive,” she added. “I took him out to drive in our neighborhood; I was terrified, let me tell you. This 44-year-old man driving for the first time? I gotta hire someone to do that.”
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The couple — who met in 2014 while at mutual friendSeth Green’s house —welcomed a son in 2021andgot engagedless than a year later.
While talking toAccess Hollywoodin March 2023,Kieran Culkinconfirmed that his brother and Song hadquietly welcomed their second child.
source: people.com
