In a brand new interview with The Guardian, the Succession star admitted that he as soon as swapped a prop joint for one with actual marijuana when he was forged in a stage manufacturing alongside Mark Ruffalo in 2000.

“I used to be 17 and silly,” Culkin prefaced of his time in Playwright Horizons’ manufacturing of James Lapine’s play The Second When on the time. “I am like, ‘I believed this was an excellent prank. I am silly. Oh my God, I am so sorry.’”

“However really, they liked it,” he went on. “Mark says, ‘I have not smoked pot in 10 years. The second half’s going to be a lot enjoyable.’ There was this different actor who had by no means smoked pot in her life. She goes, ‘Is that this what being excessive is? That is pretty.; After which Phyllis Newman is available in and goes, ‘I have not smoked pot for the reason that Nineteen Sixties. Thanks, darling.’”

He continued, “The stage supervisor comes stomping in and goes, ‘I do not care whose it’s, or what occurred, however Kieran, give me the joint.’ I sheepishly handed her the roach and he or she mentioned, ‘Damage your life by yourself time.’”

Now 42, Culkin says he is aware of higher, and isn’t going to “attempt to get anybody excessive on stage.”

Whereas this marked the primary time Culkin was fessing as much as the incident, Ruffalo beforehand alluded to the stage snafu throughout an look on The Graham Norton Present, the place he saved Culkin’s identification beneath wraps.

“There was a play that I did the place I smoked a joint within the first scene. In fact, there was a really naughty younger actor I used to be within the play with,” Ruffalo, who admittedly mentioned he tends to “overdo every little thing,” started. “On the opening night time with all of the critics, we slipped an actual joint onto the prop desk.”

“So, whenever you’re out at a celebration, you’re taking two puffs and also you say, ‘Okay, that is sufficient. I am so stoned, however I used to be appearing, so I used to be identical to—,” he defined, faking a giant inhale. “Between the 2 of us, we smoked an enormous blunt onstage.”

All of it labored out for the 13 Occurring 30 alum, who mentioned by the tip of the play he “received the very best critiques of my complete profession.”

“However I would by no means try this once more,” Ruffalo quipped.