The “House of Cards” actress explains why her life in England is freer and happier.
The eight-time Emmy-nominated Robin Wright has been living in Great Britain for some time. In an interview, the comparison to the USA draws: “The United States is a shit show,” she said, but without going closer to US politics or even Donald Trump.
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Robin Wright’s new life in the English country
According to the “Sunday Times” interview, Robin Wright’s decision came when she was awakened by her neighbors’ renovation work in Los Angeles. Everyone is currently building a huge house and the actress simply no longer bears that: “I love the peace here”, she goes into UK.
Plus: In the past few years, the 59-year-old has worked almost mainly in Great Britain. Together with her stepsister Lucinda Carmichael, she rented a number of Airbnbs in the southern English chillers Hills, in which they spent their weekends. “I love being in this country. There is a freedom of the self. People are so friendly,” said Wright. “They live. They do not sit in a traffic jam in the car, panic and eat a sandwich. It is in most parts of the USA. Everything is hectic, competition and speed,” she adds in an interview with “Sunday Times”.
Your problem with England’s fixation in social classes
The only thing the actress in idyllic life in Great Britain has not yet been able to understand is the Owner’s obsession: inside with a social class. So she says: “It is very obvious when you are in a room and feel how you are rated by someone with a higher status. I still try to understand that. Why are you so obsessed with, who is interested?”
But apart from that, she would be fine, very good. Because the triple divorced mother found love in a pub in Chiltern Hills: Together with the British architect Henry Smith, she plans to move to a house on the English coast and enjoy her life there. “It is liberating to finally be finished,” she told the British magazine.
Career continues: Robin Wright’s new Amazon series “The poison of the soul”
But the actress is not quite finished – at least when it comes to work. Since “House of Cards” she mainly focused on the director of the director. In 2021 her first film “Land”, a work on a grieving woman in the wilderness of Wyoming.
On September 20, the new Amazon Prime show “The poison of the soul” will also be released, in which it stands in front of and behind the camera. The thriller series is based on Michelle Franci’s novel “The Girlriend” (2017). There Wright plays the career woman Laura, whose life gets out of joint when her son brings his new girlfriend home, who does not trust her. She will not only slip into the role of the mother, but also direct the first three episodes of the series.