The last thing that happened to him was Tom Hardy, but unfortunately he was not the first great actor to get tired of his work.
Batman villain with Christopher Nolan and now Spider-Man, there can't be a better Venom. He has been Mad Max, the quietest of all. He's been a pilot, he's been a spy, he's been a wrestler, he's been a cowboy, and he's also been a normal guy a couple of times with results as incredible as his best role to date in Locke. Not for nothing, but enduring an hour and a half driving alone in front of the camera is not easy, in this film some critics described it as a special effect.
And so... He has worked with the best, he has produced his own series, he has directed his own movie and he has his own meme as an actor whose face is almost never seen:
“You have climbed to the top of Everest. It's already a miracle that you got anywhere on this damn mountain, let alone climbed it. Do you want to go back and do it all over again or do you want to go down and go to the beach?”
This was the metaphor with which he sounded out the Esquire journalist about his possible withdrawal. At the moment this is up in the air because Venom has two more movies and because a second part of Mad Max has also been announced...
Whatever happens, Tom Hardy will not be the first or the last actor to lose his passion for acting. Here are nine other stories about great actors who decided to call it quits:
In the eighties, this Canadian actor achieved fame with legendary films such as Ghostbusters in 1984 and Honey, I shrunk the children in 1989.
His personal story is quite sad. His wife died of cancer in 1991 and from then on he began to turn down more and more roles until in 1997 he retired completely from acting in order to raise his children.
“I am a single father and raising my children is too difficult if I have to combine it with the trips that film productions require.”
At first, Moranis was only going to take a few years to be a 100% father, but suddenly that time became much more and in the end he realized that he did not miss acting.
GRETA GARBO
In the 1930s there was probably no bigger movie star than Greta Garbo. She became known with The Temptress and rose to fame with Camille. She left classmates and spectators breathless. She was on top of the world… And then one day in 1941 when she was only 36 years old she disappeared.
"I'm tired of making faces in front of the camera," she declared... However, it has always been said that the real reason was her participation in the film Two-Faced Woman, where she played a crazy vampire who laughed and danced sauce. Nobody liked that image of Garbo, for some critics it was even insulting. The actress, apparently, could not withstand such fierce criticism.
SEAN CONNERY
Is The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen so bad? Yes, so bad that Sean Connery decided to give up acting after shooting this movie in 2003.
Maybe it's not because of the movie but let us think that yes, it is a much better version.
In any case, and as Michael Caine said, this was one of those cases in which the cinema withdraws the actor and not the actor withdraws from the cinema. As soon as he was offered good parts, Caine joked that Sean "didn't want to play little old man roles and no one was offering him romantic young man roles."
Since his retirement he has dedicated himself to playing tennis and golf. Not a bad life for the first James Bond either.
CARY GRANT
One of the few to know how to perfectly interpret normal men. The protagonist of Alfred Hitchcock's The Philadelphia Story or The Chained Up. The director said of him that he had been the only actor he had loved in his entire life.
In 1963 he shot one of his most famous films, Charade. Shortly after, at the age of 62, he left Hollywood. He did it to dedicate himself entirely to his daughter with actress Dyan Cannon, her name was Jennifer and he always defined her as "my best production".
After the divorce with Cannon, Grant turned to his daughter. He took her everywhere and always recorded her to preserve every moment of her childhood. In a biography written by Jennifer, she recounts how at first she felt some embarrassment because of her father's devotion to her. However, over time she can only thank her father for all the time he dedicated to her during the last stage of her life.
