Robin Wright is the latest Hollywood celebrity to say she’s happily living in the U.K.
“America is a (expletive) show,” she told The Sunday Times in an interview published Aug. 30. She did not raise political issues in the conversation. “I love being in this country. There’s a freedom of self here. People are so kind. They’re living.
“They’re not in the car in traffic, panicked on a phone call, eating a sandwich. That’s most of America. Everything’s rush, competition and speed.”
She concluded: “It’s liberating to be done. Be done with searching, looking and getting 60% of what you wanted.”
Wright has largely worked in England for the past several years, bouncing between rental homes. In Los Angeles, she says, “Everyone’s building a huge house and I’m just done with all that − I love the quiet.”
What does mystify her is the British fixation on class, she told the Times. “It’s very evident when you’re in a room and you feel the judgment or the praise of someone who’s more elevated,” she says. “I’m trying to figure it out. Why are you guys so obsessed with who went to this boarding school or this university?”
While living in the England, “I’ve met my person. Finally,” she said, referencing Henry Smith, a British-Australian architect she’s been involved with about a year. “I love being alone and I’ve done that many times. But I’m, like, I want to grow old with somebody, and travel and see the world.”
Wright, 59, has been married three times, including to Sean Penn, with whom she has daughter Dylan and son Hopper. She said she doesn’t want to wed again. “No. God no. Why? That’s just unnecessary.”
Her new Amazon Prime series “The Girlfriend,” a thriller about a mom (played by Wright) with a bad feeling about her son’s (Laurie Davidson) new love interest (Olivia Cooke), streams Sept. 10.