Former child star Macaulay Culkin revealed his Uncle Buck costar – the late comic John Candy – was a father figure who wanted to protect him from his real-life "monster" father, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

The 6-foot-2, nearly 300-pound Candy, who died of a heart attack at 43 in 1994, worked with 9-year-old Mac in 1989's Uncle Buck and sensed that the boy's dad, Kit Culkin , was a problem. Article continues below advertisement

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Macaulay, now 45, recalled: "I think he [Candy] always had that really great instinct. Article continues below advertisement

"He [Kit] was already not a good guy. I think John was looking a little side-

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