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# Macaulay Culkin Submits Macaulay Culkin's Resume for J. K. Rowling’s Consideration

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by 

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## Melissa Locker


Sep 27, 2018 6:20 PM UTC

by 

[Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/)


## Melissa Locker


Sep 27, 2018 6:20 PM UTC

Macaulay Culkin stepped out of the Hollywood spotlight after his days as [a child star](http://time.com/4105161/home-alone-1990/), but he may be angling for a comeback now. The actor tweeted his resume to J.K. Rowling in a bid to be cast in her upcoming film _Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald_. And who wouldn’t want to see the [_Home Alone_ star](http://time.com/5124998/macaulay-culkin-reddit/) enter the Harry Potter universe? Plus, as he points out in his tweet, he has previous experience in magic thanks to his role in _The Pagemaster_, in which he played a boy who is turned into an animated illustration and has to fight his way back to reality by conquering fairy tales.

> [](https://twitter.com/IncredibleCulk/status/1044996986376572928)

While Culkin tends to stay far from the Hollywood circuit these days (save for [Wrestlemania](http://time.com/5202981/macaulay-culkin-wrestlemania-rusev/)), when it came to applying for a job in the Harry Potter universe, he was willing to pull a few strings in true Tinsel Town tradition. In a follow-up tweet, he tagged _Fantastic Beasts_ star Dan Fogler and asked his reportedly real life friend to put in a good word for him with the promise of a little quid pro quo “There’s a back rub in it for you.”

> [](https://twitter.com/IncredibleCulk/status/1045000427786260480)


“Interesting … you do have the same coloring as a the Malfoy clan…” Fogler [replied](https://twitter.com/mrdanfogler/status/1045002128173887489).

“While I may look like a Malfoy I’m actually a Gryffindor and my patronus is a Mastiff which is a dog. So that’s cute! #MakeMeAWizard,” Culkin [continued](https://twitter.com/IncredibleCulk/status/1045015545295196160).

There’s a risk, of course, with applying to a job via Twitter in that the entire world can see you make your pitch—and weigh in to the proceedings if they so choose, like Andy Milonakis did with a sly and sad [_My Girl_ reference](http://entertainment.time.com/2010/06/21/top-10-saddest-kids-movies/slide/my-girl-1991/):

> [](https://twitter.com/andymilonakis/status/1045007545436377090)

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