The stars who abandoned their successful careers in Hollywood and started a new life away from the cameras
In 2017, three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis shocked audiences by announcing his retirement from acting. But he is not the only renowned film or television artist who took that risky step in search of something better.
Cameron Diaz has not made a movie since 2014 and is very happy with it. The actress wanted something more and has dedicated herself to writing books on health and healthy living. She disappeared from the entertainment world in silence.
But she is not the only star who believes there is a world of opportunity outside of Hollywood. Suddenly, these celebrities said goodbye to the screen and found enjoyment away from the center of attention and demands of the film and television industry. In their new life without paparazzi they do feel much better. Many of them have found a new vocation, while others are happy with a calmer one. Gene Hackman, for example, spends his days painting and writing, while his colleague Sean Connery spends his days playing golf in the Bahamas. Little has known about three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis since he announced his retirement from acting in 2017.
Cameron Diaz
Cameron Diaz, 47, last appeared on screen in "Annie" in 2014. Recently, in January, she became a new mother to a baby girl, Raddix. (Shutterstock)
The 47-year-old actress has not been on a film set for six years. At the peak of her career, the star made the decision to retire from the cinema to dedicate herself full time to family life. She is married to musician Benji Madden, a member of the rock band Good Charlotte, and in January of this year, she became a new mother to a little girl, Raddix. "It's funny that they don't know what I'm doing, because my time is everything to me," he said. She was one of the most pretended women in the studios. She conquered audiences with films like "My Best Friend's Wedding," "Vanilla Sky," and "The Sweetest Thing," among other blockbuster titles, and was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. Her success was unstoppable. “I started experiencing fame when I was 22, 25 years ago, and that's a long time. I have given more than half of my life to the public. I feel like it's okay for me to take time to reorganize and choose how I want to go back to the world. If I decide to do it, ”the interpreter explained to InStyle last year on the occasion of the magazine's 25th anniversary. The last film in which the Californian participated was the version of the musical "Annie", in 2014.
These years out of the spotlight led the actress to reflect on the eternal beauty imposed both on her and on her fellow professionals. Those ideas were reflected in “The Longevity Book. Live strong, live better; The art of aging well ”(2016) in which he criticizes the fact that a woman's age is seen as a negative aspect in the entertainment industry. Or, as Diaz stated in an interview in the Daily Mail tabloid, "that having a birthday is used against you only perpetuates the myth that the old is ugly or of less value." In one of her last public appearances, she spoke about how these years have allowed her to experience the sensation of not having people behind her always watching what happens in her life. “I'm not promoting any movies and I don't have to give anything to anyone. I'm not going to do it anymore, I'm going to live my life ”.
Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis withdrew from acting due to a "feeling of sadness." Blame it on "The Invisible Thread", his latest film directed by filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson
Daniel Day-Lewis is not a trustworthy guy when he says he doesn't want to know anything about acting. Between 1997 and 2002, he moved away from the screens completely to live in Florence and learn to make shoes. "El Hilo Invisible" (2018) is supposed to have been his last film role. The only one who has won three Oscars for best leading actor announced his retirement in 2017. “The urge to leave took hold of me and became a compulsion. It was something I had to do, "said the respected British actor. His last project under the orders of Paul Thomas Anderson was decisive. Among the reasons given by Day Lewis himself to explain the reason for this decision is that having put himself in the shoes of designer Reynolds Woodcock had caused him such a level of depression that he would never be able to exercise that profession again. “Before I started filming, I didn't know I was going to stop acting. I do know that Paul Thomas Anderson and I laughed a lot before we made the movie, but suddenly we stopped. Both of us were filled with a feeling of sadness. It was hard to live with. He still is ”, confessed the protagonist of films like“ Lincoln ”,“ My Left Foot ”or“ In the name of the father ”. Because of the artist's background, there are chances that he will regret it. In 1999 he also said he was leaving acting, until Martin Scorsese called him three years later to do "Gangs of New York" and he accepted without hesitation.
Meg ryan
Meg Ryan left acting to pursue directing
Meg Ryan has not officially retired, but she has not appeared on screen for years. The one who was considered the queen of romantic comedy lost her crown some time ago there. With a much lower profile, exploring other facets, she is from time to time news for her steps through the operating room that left her unrecognizable. It has been more than a decade since she made her last film as an actress: “The Women” in 2008. Today, the interpreter is 58 years old and is focused on her career as a director. The actress who faked the best orgasm in movie history in "When Harry Met Sally" (1989) tried directing with "Ithaca", perhaps after accepting that her acting career did not give much more. But unfortunately it does not seem to have saved it from the limbo to which Hollywood has condemned it: the film received bad reviews and nobody remembers it, despite having stars like Tom Hanks in the cast. In that film, she also worked with her son Jack, the fruit of her marriage to Dennis Quaid. “I regret not having tried my luck earlier as a writer, producer, director. I recommend that Jack not settle for being an actor if he wants to control the business instead of the business controlling him, ”he confessed some time ago to the Spanish newspaper El PaÃs.
Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman left Hollywood and went on to dedicate himself to painting and literature (The Grosby Group)
First nominated for a 1967 Hollywood Academy Award for "Bonnie and Clyde," Gene Hackman won two Oscars (for "The French Connection" in 1971 and "Unforgiven" in 1992) and remains one of the stars. most popular of the seventh art. After starring in more than 80 movies, the nicknamed "Hollywood tough guy" announced his retirement from acting in 2004 during host Larry King's television show. Four years later, in an interview with the Reuters news agency, he acknowledged that while he missed acting, he no longer wanted to do it. “This industry is very stressful for me. You have to make sacrifices to shoot movies and I got to a point where I didn't want to make them anymore ”, he was honest. Since then he decided to dedicate himself to other facets of art such as painting and literature; He has written several books including the western "Pursuit, Payback at Morning Peak" (2011) and the thriller "Pursuit" (2013). At the age of 90, which he celebrated on January 30, he lives far from the cameras that enshrined him during the seventies and eighties.
Calista flockhart
Harrison Ford with Calista Flockhart
With five seasons, the comedy "Ally McBeal" became an international success in the late 1990s and Calista Flockhart became famous. After winning a Golden Globe for best actress in a television comedy, the series served as a testimony for the actress. luck in roles on the big screen. After "A Midsummer Night's Dream", by William Shakespeare "or" Fragiles ", she returned to the small screen with" Five Brothers ", the ABC production in which she remained for five years. Around this time, she began dating Harrison Ford himself, 22 years her senior and whom she married in 2010, and with whom she adopted her son, Liam Flockhart Ford. Since then, her career has been rather discreet, almost nil. He hasn't appeared in a movie since 2005 and has a recurring character on the "Supergirl" series, but he's not addicted to Hollywood or paparazzi spotlight. The star declines any project that causes her to be estranged from her famous husband and son. “I am older and wiser. I think my priorities have changed a lot, ”she said, reflecting on her career path. "My family is very important to me."
Sean Connery
Scotsman Sean Connery retired from acting in 2003. His leisure time is spent playing golf in the Bahamas, his home since he left Hollywood (The Grosby Group)
Sean Connery, the Scottish actor world famous for playing spy James Bond, left acting after filming "The Extraordinary League" in 2003. Winner of an Oscar for best supporting actor in The Untouchables (1988), three Golden Globes and two BAFTA awards, Connery is a movie legend. However, the interpreter chose to stay away from the film sets. "Retirement is great fun," Connery wrote in a statement in 2008, when he clarified that he would not be part of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", although Spielberg fought hard to return to the saga. At the last minute, the actor "got off" the project, there was no way to convince him. "I'm sick of these idiots, of the rift that was generated between people who know how to make movies and people who give the green light for movies to be made," he sincerely expressed to the Scotsman portal, alluding to his lack of patience to deal with the knitting and handling of the studios. According to his friend and actor Michael Caine it was the movie business that retired the Bond star. The actor who was voted the sexiest man of the 20th century, "did not want to play small roles of old men," Caine said on The Telegraph a few years ago when asked about Connery's return to the big screen, making it clear that the actor's life, currently, passes on the other side. Living for years in the Bahamas, he enjoys everyday life with his wife Micheline Roquebrune and plays golf, one of his great passions. The actor does not attend any industry-related events. On August 25, Connery celebrated his 89th birthday and a photograph of the celebration allowed us to see how he is currently. As is usual in Hollywood when a star chooses to retire, rumors about his health begin: it was said that he suffered from Alzheimer's. However, from their environment they denied it.
Portia de rossi
Portia de Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres at the last Golden Globes
He announced it in May 2018, on the show of Ellen DeGeneres, his wife. Portia De Rossi, known for the television shows "Ally McBeal" and "Arrested Development," left acting at age 45. She did it to dedicate herself to her own art curation and restoration company, through 3D technology. Additionally, De Rossi participates in a wide variety of charitable organizations. Together with her partner they carry out an ambitious project: a campus in the north of Rwanda to protect mountain gorillas, one of the most threatened primate species in the world. The multi-million dollar project, to be completed in 2021, is taking place in Kinigi, in the Musanze district. The establishment will house state-of-the-art laboratories, a library, educational classrooms, and a public exhibit dedicated to displaying the legacy of primatologist Dian Fossey, who was assassinated in 1985.
Dolores Hart
Dolores Hart chose to be a nun rather than a Hollywood star (The Grosby Group)
Dolores Hart chose to be a nun rather than a Hollywood star. She appeared on the movie scene in 1957 when she played Elvis Presley's romantic interest in "Loving You." Dolores and Elvis filmed what was long remembered as the longest kiss in history. It lasted just 15 seconds on screen but it took hours and hours to record it. Since then she has stood out as a glamorous female lead and was in nine other films, including the cult classic "Where the Boys Are." Why she retired: In 1964, the then 24-year-old actress shocked Hollywood when she announced that she was leaving the camera spotlight to become a Benedictine nun. She entered a cloistered convent in Connecticut, in the United States, where she still lives today.
Dolores Hart, the nun who kissed Elvis, wore her habit at the Oscars in 2012 (AP)
In 2012, the lights of the show came back on for a while. It is that Sister Dolores broke the closure for a while to attend the Oscar ceremony for the presentation of the short documentary "God is the bigger Elvis" about her story, which was not finally awarded. "I never left Hollywood because I thought it was a place of sin, I just had another vocation," she replied to journalists who asked her why she chose to be a religious on the red carpet.
Rick moranis
Rick Moranis confirmed that he will be in the new "Darling, I Shrunk the Kids" movies.
The Canadian actor Rick Moranis was a reference in the comic cinema of the 80s after his participation in blockbusters such as the saga "Ghostbusters" (1984 and 1989) and "Dear, I shrunk the children" (1989). But in 1991, his wife, Anne Moarnis, died of cancer and left him a widower with two children. She began to accept fewer and fewer roles until she finally retired from acting entirely in 1997 to focus on raising her children. She knew that filming was incompatible with fatherhood, and she bet on family. In principle, the retirement was until 1997 but it has lasted until today and he does not miss it “I am a single parent and I realized that it is too difficult to raise my children and do the amount of travel that the production of movies, ”he told USA Today in 2005.“ So I had a break. And the little recess turned into a long one, and then I realized that I didn't miss the performance, "he added. However, Moranis has not stopped working and has recorded humorous albums, wrote comic editorials and works in radio advertising. He currently resides in Manhattan, New York City. In February 2020, he confirmed his participation in the reboot of ““ Dear, I shrunk the children ”, which is in the pre-production stage. In parallel, Moranis confirmed that he would not play Louis Tully, his other iconic character, in the third installment of Ghostbusters.
