Don’t be greedy now.
Kieran Culkin won Best Supporting Actor at the 2025 Oscars on Sunday for his role in Jesse Eisenberg’s movie “A Real Pain” — and used his acceptance speech to hold his wife to a promise over having more children.
The “Succession” star, 42, kissed his wife Jazz Charton, 36, before taking the stage and delivering a classically Culkin — that is to say, wacky — acceptance speech after his name was called at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
“I wanna really, I love you, Jazz. This is, I have to thank my wife, Jazz, for absolutely everything, for giving me my favorite people in the world,” Culkin said.
“This is — please don’t play the music because I want to tell a really quick story about Jazz,” he continued before wrapping his speech.
“About a year ago, I was on a stage like this and I very stupidly, publicly said that I want a third kid from her because she said if I won the award, I would, she would give me the kid. It turns out she said that because she didn’t think I was gonna win, but then people came up to her and were like, you know, really annoying her, I think, I think it got to her, but anyway.”
Culkin continued: “After the show, we’re walking through a parking lot, she’s holding the Emmy, we’re trying to find a car. Emily, you were there, so you’re a witness, and she goes, ‘Oh God, I did say that. I guess I owe you a third kid,’ and I turned to her and I said, ‘Really I want four.’ And she turned to me, I swear to God this happened, it was just over a year ago, she said, ‘I will give you four when you win an Oscar.’ I held my hand out, she shook it and I have not brought it up once until just now.”
“You remember that, honey? You do? Then, I just have this to say to you, Jazz, love of my life, ye of little faith. No pressure. I love you. I’m really sorry I did this again. And let’s get crackin’ on those kids. What do you say? I love you!” he said.
Culkin was also censored in his speech when he shouted out out his former “Succession” co-star and fellow category nominee Jeremy Strong.
“Jeremy, you’re amazing in ‘The Apprentice.’ I love your work, it’s f–king great,” he said as he was bleeped.
As he mentioned, Culkin asked his wife to have a third child when he won the Emmy award for “Succession” in January 2024.
“Thank you for sharing your life with me and giving me two amazing kids, Kinsey Sioux and Wilder Wolf. I love you so many and so much. And Jazz, I want more,” he said at the time.
“You said! You said, ‘Maybe,’ if I win! I love you so much,” Culkin added as he walked off the Emmys stage.
Culkin and Charton have been married since 2013. They have a 5-year-old daughter named Kinsey and a 3-year-old son named Wilder.
In January, she gushed over her husband after he won a Golden Globe for his role in “A Real Pain.”
“Okay come on this is getting ridiculous now. I’m so proud of this wonderful manic man,” she wrote on Instagram. “What a dream to watch this all happen to one of the most hardworking but also somehow the least ambitious person I’ve ever known. Beautiful.”
