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Director called 6yo Kieran Culkin dummy

"Succession" star Kieran Culkin may be having a buzzy year for his role in Jesse Eisenberg's "A Real Pain" but his career didn't start at the top.

The former child actor recalled on the "Smartless" podcast how his first acting job turned into a disaster. The now 42-year-old actor told Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett that the “first professional experience I had was a commercial when I was 6.” He didn't quite remember what it was for but it had “something to do with learning disabilities.”

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