She Never Wanted to Be a Movie Star
Alicia knew she wanted to perform on stage, but she never had a burning desire to become a movie star. The whole showbiz pressure and sex-symbol thing just wasn’t her cup of tea. “I was just a theater kid. I never wanted to be in movies or TV,” she told The Guardian in 2015, “It was just too much for me.”
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Without the motivation to audition for the best movies and keep herself at the top of Hollywood’s food chain, she slowly drifted away from the scene. She wasn’t willing to give in to the industry’s crazy and ridiculous games of power and status.