Sometimes actors need to take prolonged breaks from the industry, and it sounds like David Krumholtz is no exception. The beloved drama and comedy actor (not exactly a cakewalk for talent to be able to juggle both kinds of projects) recently seen in projects like “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,” “Supergirl,” and the Best Picture Oscar winner “Oppenheimer,” is announcing a quiet self-retirement from the business, as he’s expressed his frustration with it.
Krumholtz, who has been working non-stop for a while now, shared on his Threads account on Monday (spotted by Entertainment Weekly) a plan to put his “acting career on hold,” which is maybe surprising to a lot of people who have been following his work for decades going back to projects such as Ang Lee‘s “The Ice Storm” and the underrated “Addams Family Values,” where he played a nerdy camper infatuated with Christina Ricci‘s Wendsay Addams, as they runamock during a summer camp perofrmance of a Thanksgiving Day play (weird as it gets).
“I kinda sorta put my acting career on hold the other day. It’s been something I’ve been petrified to do for years…Specifically, the fear was that I’d go broke and not be able to handle being out of the game. A huge wave of relief washed over me. Not sure what I’m going to do for money instead, or how I’m going to do it, but I just removed a humongous burden, one that I truly didn’t fathom the weight of until it was gone. Frustrated, fed up, fried,” Krumholtz said in a post as he “sent the definitive email” putting his career on ice for the foreseeable future and, as you might imagine, is concerned about what he’s going to do for money.
“Inspire kids in school through motivational speaking,” the now-former actor added in response to a commenter asking Krumholtz about what other job prospects would interest him.
Earlier this month on Threads, Krumholtz had been pushing back on American conservative and Zionist propaganda stoking dangerous Islamophobia (that very well could get people hurt or killed stateside, let alone the brutal deaths overseas); we don’t know if there is any correlation between the posts (we assume not). But we certainly admire the actor’s courage, alongside Mark Ruffalo, Javier Bardem, and many others brave enough to speak up and out about what is essentially modern bigotry sanctioned by the media and politicians across the spectrum.
We certainly have plenty of his work to consume from over the decades, including his recent projects like “Kill Me,” “Influenced,” his performance in the play “Are You Now or Have You Ever Been,” and he still has another theatrical film on the horizon this holiday season, “Mr. Irrelevant: The John Tuggle Story.” Whatever the case may be and his reasoning, we wish David Krumholtz all the luck and success in the world, and hope to see him flourish in his future endeavors.
