John Corbett regrets his acting career

Since breaking into the scene with a leading role in Northern exposure decades ago, John Corbett She has had a long and fruitful career in both film and television, but, in her own words, it was all a mistake.

“Look, I’m now in the fourth quarter of the football game, in life and in show business. It’s a fact,” Corbett said in a new interview on the podcast Fly on the wall“So now I can reveal that I chose the wrong thing to do with my life.”

Northern exposure It was just the first of many regular TV roles for Corbett. He is perhaps most famous for playing Aidan Shaw in Sex in the citya role he has since reprised in And just like thatbut he also played Toni Collette’s husband in United States of Tara and appeared everywhere Paternity as absent father Seth Holt.

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He has also had notable roles in films, such as the father in the Netflix series. To all the boys series and the husband in My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Another role he recently reprised).

Many actors would kill for a career like that, but Corbett has some complaints, which he aired in public. Fly on the wall Hosts Dana Carvey and David Spade.

“Have you ever sat in a doctor’s waiting room for an hour and wondered what the hell is going on?” Corbett said. “For me, making a movie is like that, because I’m not part of any creative process.”

As a counterexample to his own experience, Corbett cited Emma Stone. In both Poor things and now Types of kindnessStone has not only been the lead actor on screen, but also a producer and creative collaborator. Corbett has had nothing of the sort and is disappointed.

“I’ve made a lot of money, I live in a beautiful house, people come to see me at every restaurant I go to, I’m a friend to the world,” Corbett said. “But as far as a fulfilling creative work life goes, I haven’t written a single line. I haven’t written a single joke that made people laugh. So it’s been unfulfilling in that sense.”

Listen to the full episode at Fly on the walland watch Corbett return as Aiden in season 3 of And just like that.