Mia Wasikowska Is “Pretty Content” With Her Decision to Leave Hollywood
Not only did Mia Wasikowska find the pace to not be a good fit, she wasn't necessarily fulfilled by the work.
“Maybe if the payoff is good and you feel really great doing it, then that’s okay, but I didn’t.” https://t.co/pdssoA21sq
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In the early 2010s, Mia Wasikowska was a Hollywood “It girl,” starring in everything from indie darlings to high-profile studio films. But after her 2016 film Alice Through the Looking Glass was deemed a critical and commercial flop, Wasikowska seemed to take an extended and noticeable break from the limelight.
Wasikowska reveals that the choice to step away from the industry was by design:
“I want to do more things in life other than be in a trailer.”
Her busiest year may have been 2010, she starred in the best-picture-nominee The Kids Are All Right and also booked the coveted role of Alice in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland franchise.
Wasikowka revealed that life in Hollywood was ultimately not for her.
She find the pace to be a poor fit, she wasn’t necessarily fulfilled by the work.
Wasikowska did so by leaving Hollywood and moving back to her native Sydney, Australia.
She’s still acting, but less frequently and mainly in indie films with auteurs she admires.
She returns to the screen this year as Abby, an oceanographer, in the eco-conscious indie Blueback.
There is one role that slipped through her fingers that she wished she’d gotten a hold of.
shopgirl Therese Belivet in Todd Haynes’s queer period romance Carol.
The role ultimately went to Rooney Mara.
“I was attached to it a long time ago, and then a few things happened, and the shoot got pushed, and I signed on to Guillermo del Toro’s film Crimson Peak. So I signed on to that and started having conversations with Guillermo and Carol came back, and they’re like, ‘We’re going!’ And I was like, ‘I can’t now,’ so yeah, it was a bummer.”
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