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Macaulay Culkin is opening up about regrets.
Appearing on the latest episode of First We Feast’s YouTube talk show, Hot Ones, released Thursday, Aug. 7, the actor, 44, spoke about how he missed out on a lead role in an iconic film.
Asked if there were any roles he regretted losing during his hiatus from acting in the mid-’90s, Culkin went on to say, “I was actually pretty good at reading, I was voraciously reading through the scripts, but there was a couple that slipped through.”
“I remember about two years later, clearing out the house and throwing out the old scripts and I saw the one that I didn’t read was Rushmore, I was like, ‘Oh dang, ’” he reflected on the 1998 movie.
Culkin added, “Like I probably could have done that one.”
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However, the Home Alone star went on to state that he “couldn’t imagine anyone but [Jason] Schwartzman doing that part, but at the same time I’m like, ‘Oh man, that would have been a ball and a biscuit, that one.’ ”
Schwartzman played the lead role of Max Fischer in the comedy/indie classic, which follows the life of the studious student at Rushmore Academy as he falls for his teacher, Ms. Cross, who his mentor is also in love with.
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Although Culkin didn’t play the role, he had already made a name for himself by starring in a series of iconic ’90s films such as My Girl, Ritchie Rich and the Home Alone franchise.
He also made a return to acting in the early 2000s with movies like 2003’s Party Monster and Saved! in 2004.
