{"id":93866,"date":"2024-04-28T17:01:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T17:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/28\/quvenzhane-wallis-explains-why-she-took-a-break-from-hollywood-i-wanted-a-normal-life\/"},"modified":"2024-04-28T17:01:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T17:01:42","slug":"quvenzhane-wallis-explains-why-she-took-a-break-from-hollywood-i-wanted-a-normal-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/28\/quvenzhane-wallis-explains-why-she-took-a-break-from-hollywood-i-wanted-a-normal-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Quvenzhane Wallis explains why she took a break from Hollywood: &#8216;I wanted a normal life&#8230;&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-04-28\" datetime=\"1714323702\" pubdate=\"\">28 April 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p>Quvenzhan\u00e9 Wallis took a break from Hollywood so she could have a &#8220;normal&#8221; life.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Quvenzhan\u00e9 Wallis took a break from acting after childhood stardom so she could have a normal life<\/p>\n<p>\nThe 20-year-old star became the youngest-ever actress to be nominated for an Academy Award when she played the role of Hushpuppy in the 2012 drama film &#8216;Beasts of the Southern Wild&#8217; at just nine years old and continued working for some time but admitted that she can &#8220;barely remember&#8221; any of it as she explained why she took a step back for some time. <\/p>\n<p>\nShe told E! News: &#8220;I barely remember any of it, honestly, which is surprising to a lot of people. It&#8217;s very blurry. The most that I remember is being on set for Beasts and being outside and having fun with everyone.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;But I don&#8217;t remember meeting a lot of the people, I don&#8217;t really remember that whole period. I just remember traveling the world and meeting so many different people.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It was really eye-opening to me as a kid because I had only been in Houma, Louisiana, and I got to see everything so fast and so quickly that it was like, &#8216;Oh [nodding and looking around], OK, alright\u2026&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I had that gap where I wasn&#8217;t really working and my self-esteem dropped and I wasn&#8217;t too sure of myself. and just talking to people since then has slowly rebuilt that. Jennifer told me, &#8216;Go for it, what&#8217;s the worst that can happen? Someone tells you no? You&#8217;ve already experienced that and you made it past that. Just go for it.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;That gap was really just me being &#8216;normal&#8217; to the best extent that I could.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe &#8216;Breathe&#8217; actress continued her Hollywood success with roles in &#8217;12 Years a Slave&#8217; and &#8216;Annie&#8217; but was keen to experience things like high school while still auditioning for things in the traditional way before she took the leading role in the sitcom &#8216;Swagger&#8217; in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;I was in high school and playing sports and I was on the dance team, just living life. But I was still auditioning and that&#8217;s what made that gap the hardest thing for me, because I went back to being in a normal environment. No one treated me special, no one treated me like I was anyone\u2026important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/quvenzhane-wallis-explains-took-break-hollywood-wanted-normal-life-1398650.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 April 2024 Quvenzhan\u00e9 Wallis took a break from Hollywood so she could have a &#8220;normal&#8221; life. 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