The buddy comedy is back with Succession breakout Kieran Culkin and The Social Network star Jesse Eisenberg in their familial road comedy A Real Pain. The film, written and directed by Eisenberg, is sitting pretty with a 98% Rotten Tomatoes score and nestled in the top spot on Hulu's Top 10.

"I was at the premiere, and I was dying laughing," Culkin told the Los Angeles Times in December. "It was the funniest thing I had ever seen. I had no idea what the movie was abou

Culkin shares what made him not step away from the movie.

Golden Globe Awards, Kieran Culkin shared a special thank you to his ex Emma Stone—who produced his film A Real Pain—while accepting the win for Best Supporting Actor.

In A Real Pain, Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg play mismatched cousins, Benji Kaplan and David Kaplan. They travel to Europe to honor their grandmother and track their Jewish lineage. Dysfunction arises when the two drastically different personalities face unresolved tensions from the past.

Jesse Eisenberg wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the film opposite Culkin, who also won a Golden Globe for his work on the film. It was among the 12 films nominated in the Best Motion Picture categories at the Globes, too, and Eisenberg picked up nods for his lead performance in the film and the screenplay.

On January 5th, Kieran Culkin won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Film. He won the award for his performance as Benji in “A Real Pain”. The next night, the WWE Raw on Netflix premiere was held in Los Angeles, and Culkin was one of the many stars in attendance.

Although Kieran Culkin won a Golden Globe for his performance in A Real Pain, he would have dropped out of the role if not for producer Emma Stone.

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While Kieran Culkin was beginning to accept the award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in A Real Pain, he realized he was still chewing his gum. The Succession alum casually took it out of his mouth and shared that he didn’t know what to do with it only for Eisenberg to swoop in seconds later to retrieve the ABC gum.

Kieran Culkin winning a 2025 Golden Globe was great, but the real success story is his 11-year marriage to Jazz Charton and their two children together.

"Lately, people have felt a need to take shots at me or say disparaging things, which I don’t really think there’s any need for," Strong said after his 'Succession' costars criticized his perspective