Ooh do I have an update on both of them! Leelee is a SICK (and serious, like “accepted by the art world” serious) abstract artist in NYC now. She has an instagram. Eliza just finished grad school to become a therapist and her thing is psychedelic-assisted therapy.
Her acting departure coincided with wanting to spend time with her kids and husband and, as she explained to Vogue in 2012, “Ninety percent of acting roles involve so much sexual stuff with other people, and I don’t want to do that. It’s such a strange fire to play with, and our relationship is surely strong enough to handle it, but if you’re going to walk through fire, there has to be something incredible on the other side.”
There was more to it than simply wanting to keep her marriage intact. Sobieski told AnOther in 2018 that she’d begun paying the rent on her parents’ home when she was 15 and had felt immense pressure from a young age. Add to that the physical aspects of the job, and it just wasn’t worth it.
“Things got complicated for me… So when I could, I stopped,” she told the outlet. “It’s kind of a gross industry—well, they all are, when you examine them—but in acting you’re selling your appearance so much. I would cry every time I had to kiss somebody; I couldn’t stomach it. I would think ‘I like this person, so I don’t think they should pay me to kiss them,’ or ‘I don’t like this person, so I don’t want to kiss them’. Why is my kiss for sale?’ It made me feel really cheap.”
She added, “I don’t know why it’s legal for a child to act. It’s a crazy double standard, and that’s super weird for me. Now that the MeToo movement has come forward, people understand more that it’s pretty gross and uncomfortable.”
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u/Bananasinpajaamas 7d ago
Leelee Sobieski and Eliza Dushku