Kieran Culkin demonstrated the ear hair pluck while on stage at the 29th Annual Critics Choice Awards.Photo:Kevin Winter/Getty
Kevin Winter/Getty
“I’m a little bit thrown, actually,” Culkin, 41, began. “I have this hair that grows on the side of my ear. Not like an ear hair.”
Kieran Culkin walked the red carpet at the 29th Annual Critics Choice Award.Frazer Harrison/Getty
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When Snook plucked one from his left ear, Culkin realized it wasn’t the one he was used to feeling. So, his wife discovered another hair was still rooted and growing. “They both started taking turns plucking my hair, and it was really painful,” Culkin continued to the laughter of his peers. “And now, I’m here talking about it instead of saying what I had prepared to say, which is gone now. And I’m probably out of time.”
Culkin used the remainder of his speech to shout out the camera crew onSuccession. “I feel like they’re always underappreciated — it’s the camera department,” he said. “In particular, the cameras operators. I mean, they film the thing. I feel like on our show, they were kind of like lifesavers.”
As he walked off stage, Culkin gave the crowd one last laugh when he mouthed to the camera: “What was I saying?”
The nominees for this year’s big prize included Culkin’sSuccessioncostarJeremy Strong,Loki’sTom Hiddleston,Timothy OlyphantfromJustified: City Primeval,The Last of UsstarPedro PascalandRamón RodríguezofWill Trent.
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Culkin scored his third Critics' Choice nomination for the final season of HBO’sSuccession.His performance tracking Roman Roy’s descent from smug to shattered to shambolic alreadywon him a 2024 Golden Globe Awardon Jan. 7.
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Marvel fans will be super familiar with Hiddleston’s work as the devilish Norse god Loki, and the Disney+ series has been Hiddleston’s playground since June 2021.
Hiddleston has described Loki as “a complex figure. Intelligent yet vulnerable. Angry and lost and broken and witty,” and his collaborative partnership withKenneth Branagh— who first cast him in the part for 2011’sThor— as “life-changing.”
On top of Hiddleston’s own acting nod, his costarsKe Huy QuanandSophia Di Martinoboth received supporting nominations. The show was also honored with a best drama series nod.
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Olyphant returned to the role of Raylan Givens, which he previously embodied onJustifiedfrom 2010 to 2015, for its spinoff seriesJustified: City Primeval.
The role of the U.S. Marshal has been good to Olyphant, who also scored a 2011Emmynomination for his performance.
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In addition to Pascal’s nomination, Ramsey was also honored with a best actress nod at this year’s awards, and the HBO show itself was among the nominees for best drama series.
Thesecond season ofThe Last of Uswill premiere on HBO in 2025, with production slated to start next month.
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Rodríguez’s standout turn as title character Will Trent in ABC’s procedural crime drama earned him the show’s sole nomination at this year’s CCAs.
He told PEOPLE of the show ahead of its debut last January: “This is a crime drama that has a lot of heart and doesn’t take itself so serious. It laughs at itself at times. I think that’s the fine line only that we’ve been able to spar. There’s some seriousness, there’s some drama, but yet we are able to thread the needle with including some humor in there and levity.”
Of his character, he added, “I love this character. I adore him. I think he’s just a very complicated human being that is doing his best to navigate the world.”
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Four seasons of failed coup attempts onSuccessionearned Strong three Critics' Choice nominations since the HBO drama debuted in June 2018.
Theseries finalesaw Strong’s character Kendall Roy left alone and bereft, contemplating a future without father, family or power once and for all. Presumably Sunday’s ceremony was a bit more celebratory for the actor, who joined Culkin, Snook, Macfadyen and the show itself as one the series' five 2024 CCA nods.
Successionwon the Critics Choice Award for best drama series.
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