Although Kieran Culkin isn't a fan of method acting, sometimes it's no competition with the real thing.
After a 2012 interview in which Mark Ruffalo revealed a “naughty young actor” once got him upstage when he swapped a prop joint for the real thing during a play, Real pain The star admitted that he was behind the prank.
“I was 17 and I was stupid,” Culkin said. The Guardian When he appeared in the 2000 Playwrights Horizons production of James Lapine The moment when.
With a bag of prop joints behind the scenes, Culkin couldn't resist the urge to swap one out. “Oh. I think this happened,” he told himself weeks later as he smelled a familiar scent and “just watched” Ruffalo take a hit and pass it to his co-star.
At intermission, Culkin had to get clean. “I'm like, 'I thought that was a good joke.' “I'm stupid. Oh my God, I'm so sorry,” he recalled. “But actually, they liked it. Mark says: I haven't smoked weed in 10 years; The second half will be very interesting. There was another actor who had never smoked weed in her life. She says, “Is this the height?” This is beautiful. Then Phyllis Newman comes in and says, “I haven't smoked weed since the 1960s.” Thank you, my dear.”
Culkin continued: “Then the stage manager comes along and says, 'I don't care who it is, or what happened, but Kieran, give me the joint.' She sheepishly handed her the cockroach and said, “Rose your life in your own time.”
Looks like the Golden Globe winner has learned his lesson. “I know, I know. But I was young. I'm 42 now. I know better. I'm not going to try to make anyone get high on stage,” he said.
Ruffalo previously recounted the incident when he appeared The Graham Norton Show In 2012: “There was a play I did and I had to smoke pot in the first scene. And of course, there was a very naughty young actor I was in, who on opening night with all the critics, put a real joint on the prop table.
“So, when you're out partying, you take a couple of puffs and say, 'Okay, that's enough,'” Ruffalo said, noting that when he acts on stage, he tends to “exaggerate everything.” I'm so stoned. “But I was acting, so I was like…” he explained, taking a big inhale.
“Between the two of us, we smoked a huge cigarette on stage,” Ruffalo said. “And I'm like, 'Man, I'm in tonight.' I feel it. I'm on fire. I feel like this… Why is this man standing backstage and laughing at me? And the kid who put the joint on the prop table is standing there, [laughing]. And I just said: “Oh –”.
“But at the end of the play, I got the best reviews of my entire career,” Ruffalo added.
