Culkin struggling to get work

Macaulay Culkin

Former child star Macaulay Culkin says he has trouble getting work and barely speaks to his friend Michael Jackson.

Culkin (25) told Time magazine he did not know where he fitted in in Hollywood any more, and had considered an alternative career in sports management.

"I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the past two years, I've basically taken meetings for a living."

Culkin, whose semi-autobiographical, stream-of-consciousness novel, Junior, comes out this month, said he had spoken to Jackson on the phone once since the singer moved to Dubai after being cleared of child sex abuse charges.