Mandy Moore said Macaulay Culkin introduced her to drinking when she was underage while filming the 2004 film Saved!. The 42-year-old actress recalled during a podcast and said, “I do remember a little bit of underage drinking. As it happened, I was like, ‘Look, I didn’t go to high school.’ I was 18.”
Saved! Star Mandy Moore reveals Macaulay Culkin introduced her to ‘underage drinking.’
In a conversation with Evan Ross Katz on his Netflix show Shut Up, Evan, Moore explained, “I think it was Mac, Macaulay, that introduced me and all of us to a White Russian. I was like, ‘Milk and alcohol? This is made for me, I love this! This is like ice cream, this is fantastic,'” reports Entertainment Weekly.
Culkin was the oldest in the cast, which included co-stars Jena Malone, Patrick Fugit, and Eva Amurri, and was old enough to drink in Canada legally, where the film was shot. He was 23.
In 2001 and 2002, Moore appeared in The Princess Diaries and A Walk to Remember. Talking about it, she said, “I’d really just done Princess Diaries and A Walk to Remember, and I was like, ‘This will be fun.’ And the fact that I’d had so much fun doing both of those films, namely Princess Diaries, because it was with a lot of other young people — I was like, ‘Oh, this is like summer camp!'”.
Moore added that spending time with the group had a strong impact on her. “I felt like a cool kid. I was like, ‘Oh, I get to sit at the cool kids’ table with these young Hollywood kids that are making really cool choices, and they’re a part of really great films,'” she described.
Looking back, she said it was a “crazy life-changing experience.” “I just loved the script and the character, and I thought it was really irreverent and funny, and also like gonna move the needle. But it also felt so wholly different than who I am that I was like, ‘Oh, this is a stretch, and this is unlike anything I’ve done before.”
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Originally reported by Meenakshi Sengupta on Mandatory
