While the Home Alone movies are holiday favorites for many families, they aren't for Macaulay Culkin. 
 
 On Monday's episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the child star admitted he doesn't watch the classic comedies. 
 
 "I don't really watch them all that often," the now-37-year-old actor told Ellen DeGeneres. In fact, the Kevin McCallister character described the movies as "background radiation at Christmas time." 
 
 "I've had people want to sit down and watch it with me," he told the host, "which is, like, both flattering and creepy." 
 
 If Culkin does catch one of the movies, he tends to think more about his time on set than the plot itself. 
 
 "I can't watch it the same way other people do," he said. 
 
 He doesn't even make an exception come Dec. 25. 
 
 "So, when it comes on—which it comes on, I'm sure, every Christmas, every Thanksgiving—you don't watch it?" DeGeneres asked. 
 
 "No, not really," he replied. 

 The actor appears on Monday's episode of 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show,' where he also talks about why he stepped away from the spotlight for several years. 
 
 A warning to Home Alone fans: Don't ask star Macaulay Culkin to re-create his iconic face from the 1990 hit film. 
 
 The actor, who appears on Monday's episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show to talk about his new Bunny Ears lifestyle brand and podcast of the same name, says he gets that request all the time but doesn't ever oblige. 
 
 "I've been there, done that already. I'm 37, OK? OK, Mom?" jokes the actor. 
 
 He also avoids watching the movie — he calls the annual holiday TV staple "background radiation at Christmastime" — and says people have asked to watch it with him, which is "flattering and creepy." 
 
 He also says that if he does catch parts of it, he remembers more of what was happening on set that day behind the scenes. "I can't watch it the same way other people do," he explains. 
 
 He also jokes that Christmastime is "my season," given how ubiquitous the movie is during that time of the year. He says he tries to avoid leaving the house around the holiday. 
 
 During his appearance, he also talks about growing up as part of a family of seven children living a one-bedroom apartment, getting his start in ballet, stepping back from the spotlight at age 14 to go to high school and more.
– Home Alone may be a holiday favorite in lots of US homes, but you won't find it on Macaulay Culkin's TV. The actor tells Ellen DeGeneres on Monday's show that he generally avoids watching the 1990 flick, which he calls "background radiation at Christmastime," reports E! Online. And that's despite getting lots of requests from people to watch it with them, "which is, like, both flattering and creepy." In fact, things get so intense for him around then that Culkin says he avoids leaving the house. And as for the famous "face" he makes in the movie, please don't be among the throngs asking him to reproduce it, because it won't happen. "I've been there, done that already. I'm 37, OK? OK, Mom?" he jokes, per the Hollywood Reporter.