Stars Who Took a Long Break from Acting & Explain What They Did Instead!

George Clooney

George Clooney opened up to Michelle Pfeiffer about his four year hiatus from acting in an interview with Variety, telling the actress, “You kind of start to exhaust a lot of the things that you’ve tried, and honestly the roles were less interesting at times. And the older you get, the less interesting—for a while—they get. I sort of felt like I wanted to focus on other parts of my career.”

He went on to say that he wanted “more control” over his career, leading him to look for more roles behind the camera.

“So I didn’t really walk away from the business, I just sort of walked away from the front end of the camera,” George said. “In moments you tend to start to repeat yourself in a way, and I was looking to get away from that.”

George’s latest project was the science fiction film The Midnight Sky, which he starred in alongside Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Tiffany Boone and Kyle Chandler.