Alfred Molina Fights Tears Saying ‘I Did Disappoint My Dad’ by Being an Actor and Rejecting Higher-Paying Job: ‘He Stared at Me Like He Didn’t Recognize Me’
01.05.2024 - 21:03
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Alfred Molina has gone viral on social media for sharing an emotional story to Vanity Fair about his father, who never vocally supported his son’s acting career. Molina once had the chance to become the manager of a restaurant for a higher salary than what his early acting jobs were paying. He turned it down to pursue the arts, which baffled his father.
This was long before Molina became a Tony and BAFTA-nominated actor, plus an iconic movie villain thanks to Doctor Octopus in Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man 2.” “When I was very young, my dad got me a job as a waiter in the restaurant where he was working. If I say so myself, I was a good waiter.. to the point where the management offered me the chance to do a two week management training course,” Molina said.
“I turned it down because I got an acting job. My father says, ‘This acting job. How much are they paying you?’ I said, ‘I’m getting union [wage], so 15 pounds a week.'” Molina revealed that the management job would’ve started out with a salary in the 30 pound range, which had his father asking: “Wait a minute.
You’re making 30 or 35 here. Then you go to making 15?” “I said, ‘Yeah.’ He looked at me and he had the look on his face that you reserve for the mad and the lost,” Molina recalled. “He stared at me like he didn’t recognize me.
The only thing I could say to him was, ‘This is what I love, dad.’ He never quite got it. I did disappoint my dad. Yeah.
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