David Arquette Admits Feeling Inferior To Ex-Wife Courteney Cox During Her ‘Friends’ Fame
29.04.2023 - 02:23
/ etcanada.com
More than a decade after filing for divorce, David Arquette is getting candid about how he reacted to ex Courteney Cox‘s meteoric “Friends” fame during their marriage.
During an interview on SiriusXM’s “Andy Cohen Live”, host Andy Cohen asked the “Mrs. Davis” actor if he felt inferior to Cox “based on how successful” the NBC sitcom was when they were together.
“Yeah, absolutely. It’s difficult,” he said. “…I have some of the traditional male things where I want to like, you know, provide and pick up the cheque and, you know, be the breadwinner.”
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He also acknowledged the generally turbulent and unpredictable nature of the industry and how it can affect a relationship between two actors.
“In the acting world in general, you’re always going on this rollercoaster of popularity and, you know, not able to get a job,” he said, adding, “so it’s like this weird thing. And then when you’re, you know, comparing yourself to someone who’s at the, you know, top of the television, iconic world, it’s kinda hard to put yourself there, so there was definitely like learning and dealing with that and a lot of pain and, you know, arguments or, you know, ego, early on.”
Asked how the A-list pair dealt with it, Arquette pointed out the importance of getting to the root of the issue.
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“A lot of it has to do with, you know, the way you’re taking things, the way you’re saying things, the way you’re responding to things, the way you’re, you know, allowing other sort of outside influences affect how you feel about yourself, so I