Robin Wright, known for her roles in “Forrest Gump” and “The Princess Bride,” has moved to the United Kingdom and is saying goodbye to the United States.
Speaking with The Times, the actress/director said she has been working in the U.K. for several years.
“America is a s—show,” she said, though her remarks mentioned nothing political, or dealing with President Donald Trump, in contrast to other celebrity expatriates.
“I love being in this country,” Wright said of her new home. “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.”
Wright, 59, who also starred for five years in the celebrated “House of Cards,” said the pace of life is not only slower, but less noisy. In America, in her California oceanfront home, she would wake up to the sound of renovations at her neighbors’ houses.
“Everyone’s building a huge house and I’m just done with all that — I love the quiet,” she said. Across the pond, she wakes up to the sounds of birds singing in the trees.
Wright will soon appear in the thriller “The Girlfriend” on Prime, and directs a few episodes. She would not say whether she would work again with her former “Cards” co-star Kevin Spacey, who was recently found not guilty of sexual assault.
“I don’t really think we need to talk about Kevin,” she said. “That was then.”
Saying she’s “met her person,” Wright said she is dating British-born, Australian-raised architect Henry Smith, whom she met at a country pub. She also plans to take time off.
“It’s liberating to be done,” she said. “Be done with searching, looking and getting 60% of what you wanted.”
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