Kieran Culkin joked that he planned to collect on a bet with his wife, Jazz Charton, to have two more children, in his acceptance speech for winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in “A Real Pain.”
At the time, Charton could only nod and laugh in the audience, but she shared her reaction to her husband’s speech on Instagram two days later.
The couple currently has two children, daughter Kinsey Sioux, 5, and son Wilder Wolf, 3. But perhaps they will soon be expanding the family.
“OK, OK hear me out — making empty baby pacts may seem foolish but it’s clearly been a great motivator,” she joked on an carousel of images from Oscar night. “Would he have come this far if I hadn’t kept promising him more kids if he won awards? … Probably. But who’s to say?”
Culkin explained the “baby pacts” in his acceptance speech.
“About a year ago, I was on a stage just like this and I very stupidly, publicly said that I want a third kid from her because she said if I won the award she would give me the kid. Turns out she said that because she didn’t think I was going to win,” Culkin deadpanned, pausing for laughter.
In the audience, Charlton nodded and mouthed, “It’s true.”
“After the show, we’re walking through a parking lot, she’s holding the Emmy, we’re trying to find our car … 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,’” Culkin continued.
“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.’”
Laughing even more in ther audience, Charton said, “I did!”
