Actress Mia Wasikowska mentioned she left Hollywood behind for her native Australia as a result of she “didn’t completely like the life-style” of doing film after film, which made her really feel “disconnected” from her neighborhood.
“I need to do extra issues in life aside from be in a trailer,” the Jane Eyre actress revealed to IndieWire in an interview revealed Friday.
Not so way back, Wasikowska was a Hollywood “it” lady, starring in blockbuster motion pictures like Disney’s Alice in Wonderland and Crimson Peak. However she mentioned after residing the fast-paced life-style since she was a young person, she was prepared for a change of tempo.
“I didn’t completely like the life-style of going back-to-back-to-back. I felt actually disconnected from any larger neighborhood,” she mentioned.
“I used to be doing it since I had been 17 — properly, extra like 15 — however actually working lots from 17. I spent 10 to fifteen years, utterly like, new metropolis, new nation, each three months. And it’s like beginning college once more each few months. Particularly while you’re youthful, while you don’t have that base. I discovered that basically arduous.”
The 33-year-old mentioned that led her to need to discover a place the place she might put down roots.
“Perhaps if the pay-off is nice and you are feeling actually nice doing it, then that’s OK. However I didn’t. So, I needed to ascertain that for myself on a private stage and have extra of a way of someplace I belong that’s not simply on a movie set that ends each few weeks,” she mentioned.
Wasikowska moved again to Sydney a number of years in the past and, since then, has been engaged on Australian unbiased tasks like Blueback, a drama about an oceanographer advocating for coral reefs in opposition to poachers, which got here out final 12 months.
The Alice Via the Wanting Glass actress mentioned she’d wish to work on Hollywood movies sometimes however doesn’t see herself shifting again to Los Angeles full time.
“I’m fairly content material,” she mentioned. “If I can have the perfect of each worlds, which is dip out and in of it sometimes, I’d be actually completely satisfied. However I wouldn’t ever be in that place the place I used to be simply on a treadmill.
“I need to do extra issues in life aside from be in a trailer. It’s nice, and there are many nice issues, [but] the notion of it’s fairly completely different from the truth. And it didn’t go well with me as an individual. You may actually lose perspective since you’re handled fairly surprisingly. When that’s your solely actuality, it’s fairly unusual.”
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Initially revealed as Why ‘it’ lady Mia Wasikowska left Hollywood for Australia
