Kevin Spacey Gives Up Movies for Old Vic???
Date: 14 June 2007
Hollywood actor-turned-Old Vic artistic director
Kevin Spacey’s dedication to the historic London theatre is admirable – and perhaps all-consuming. As a result, he may be giving up Hollywood for good. Since moving to London and taking the helm at the Old Vic in 2003, he’s already substantially cut back on his film projects.
This week he told London Tonight: "I don't care about my personal acting career any more. I'm done with it. After ten years of making movies and doing better than I ever could have imagined, I sort of had to ask myself, ‘What am I supposed to do with all of this success that I have had? Am I just going to keep making movie after movie and be concerned with all of that 'Are you up, are you down, are you hot, are you not?', and I don't really care,” Spacey continued. “What I care about is working with people, what I care about is the remarkable experience of being able to be a part of bringing people together.”
Spacey recently returned from Broadway where he transferred with the Old Vic revival of Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten, for which he won the Best Actor prize in the Whatsonstage.com Awards for a second year in a row. Next January, he’ll return to the Old Vic stage to star in David Mamet’s 1988 satire Speed-the-Plow (See News, 31 May 2007).
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