Mandy Moore got into a little prank with Macaulay Culkin while filming the 2004 movie Saved! together.
The actress, 42, revealed on the Wednesday, May 27 episode of Evan Ross-Katz’s Netflix show Shut Up, Evan that she had drinks with Culkin, 45, even though he was underage at the time.
“I remember a little bit of underage drinking,” she said. “It just so happened that I thought, ‘Look, I didn’t go to high school.’ I was 18.”
The teen comedy was filmed in British Columbia, Canada, where the legal drinking age is 19.
Culkin was older than many of the teenage actors who appeared on Saved! The cast also included Jena Malone and Eva Amurri, who could legally drink alcohol.
“I think it was Mac, Macaulay, who introduced me and all of us to the White Russians,” Moore recalled. “I was like, ‘Milk and alcohol? This is made for me, I love it! It’s like ice cream and it’s amazing!'”
During the chat, Moore said that despite many of the cast members being young, they didn’t cause too many problems together.
“We clearly remember sweet, innocent incidents like taking giant marshmallows and throwing them from the balcony at people,” she said. “We were just kids! We didn’t mean to do anything really bad.”
Moore reflected on the memories he made with his co-stars on set and praised the filming experience and the film’s story.
“It was a crazy, crazy, life-changing experience,” she said.
Mandy Moore and Macaulay Culkin.
(Photo by L. Cohen/WireImage)In Saved!, Moore played Hilary Faye, the best friend of the film’s main character, Mary (played by Malone). Mary tries to “save” her boyfriend from a homosexual man, but ends up getting pregnant in the process.
“I loved the script and the character and it was really irreverent and funny and I also wanted to move the needle, but I felt like it was so different from me that I was like, ‘Oh, I can’t do this, this is unlike anything I’ve ever done. So hopefully, very intentionally, this will open the door for other projects,’ so that people look at me in a different light,” Moore added.
Milo Ventimiglia and Mandy Moore may have played one of TV’s most beloved couples, Jack and Rebecca Pearson, on This Is Us, but that didn’t stop the actors from having some “hot” moments. Ventimiglia, 47, recalled that he once yelled at Moore, 40, while filming a fight scene because the actors were so perfect for their roles.
In June 2024, the This Is Us alum expressed similar feelings about what it was like to make the film in an interview with People.
“I have a lot of memories from being on set. We were all staying in the same hotel during filming, and I always remember spending time together in each other’s rooms, like, ‘Okay, we’re all going to Jena’s room today.’ Or, ‘Oh, we’re all going to Eva’s room or Mac’s room today,’ and making dinner and ordering food and just hanging out,” she told the magazine.
“It felt like we were all 17, 18 years old, maybe a little older, but it was such a fun summer camp experience. And we knew it was a really weird, special, tiny little thing. We never lost sight of what we were doing.”
