Helen Hunt: ‘There were a couple of years I was spooked – I just became very boring’
02.09.2022 - 02:55
/ msn.com
, it was the release of the acerbic romcom in 1997 – in which Hunt’s waitress and single mother forms a love-hate relationship with Jack Nicholson’s misanthropic author – that saw her career truly go supernova. As Good As It Gets brought overnight fame and a best actress Oscar. And yet, the decades since have seen if not a disappearance of that fame, at least an erosion, with few of her films bothering the box office or the Academy (although she did land a best supporting actress nomination for 2012 indie film The Sessions).
Helen Hunt isn’t of that mindset, though, because As Good As It Gets gave her exactly what she didn’t want: fame. “There were a couple of years when I was a little spooked,” she admits when asked about paparazzi outside her house. “I was afraid that I could never unring that bell.
” So how did she cope with the media assault? “I just became very boring,” she says matter-of-factly. Hunt is far from boring company, but she does seem incredibly normal; hardly the sort of person you could imagine hovering around some renowned celebrity hotspot. As we chat on Zoom, she sits on her bed in glasses, clutching a bowl and apologising for eating dinner while we talk.
“There are some people,” she says, “who will live more exciting lives and keep going at that level – and it’s their whole life, wherever they go, for ever. ” She looks stricken at this, as if it’s her worst nightmare, but then laughs. “I think by the 130th picture of me in my khaki pants with my yoga mat, that picture’s worth nothing!”The 59-year-old actor and film-maker is in London, where she is rehearsing for her star turn in Eureka Day at the Old Vic.
The website popstar.one is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can
send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.