So I did some digging and the original source of this tale is our old fake news nemesis NeonNettle. A French hoax-busting site researched this and interviewed Les Echos, who pointed out the original story December 12, 2017 involved a screengrab of a December 20 Les Echos page, which was edited to feature the Culkin "interview". They forgot to change the article date, though, and hence their story appeared a week prior to the alleged Les Echos piece it was written about. Doh!

https://www.hoaxbuster.com/medias-et-techno/2018/01/19/les-chos-font-du-bruit

Screencap of the Google translation of that piece: https://files.catbox.moe/qmc5t1.png

Once NeonNettle was called out for this fake news, they scrubbed the page. The hoaxbuster article does include a screencap of the NeonNettle page. No one apparently archived it.

@darkknight111 @millennial_vulcan I think we're going to have to start giving this the Possible Disinfo flair. Thoughts?