Why You Don't See Helen Hunt Anymore

a complicated romance a twister sequel that never happened and a passion for theater Helen Hunt might have stepped out of the spotlight since her Oscar win in the late 90s but that doesn't mean she isn't living a life that she loves Helen Hunt's performance in 1997's As Good As It Gets earned her an Oscar for best actress while anyone would be lucky to hold such an honor the attention the wind brought the actor wasn't quite to her liking I don't quite get how that's a compliment for me reflecting on the time after the film came out hunt told the guardian I felt quite nervous because I was being followed I remember thinking what if I can't turn this off am I always going to be walking to my car and there are people with cameras there does this last forever after the success of As Good As It Gets she appeared in a few television projects before taking a short break from acting altogether when she returned to the screen in 2000 she was very selective about the project she took on she chose to focus on indie films and passion projects and kept an eye out for exactly the right rules as she told cinema.com her success and as good as it gets left her a lot to live up to and she wanted to ensure that her follow-up would be just as high quality [Music] asshunttholdfemale.com.au she was unsure exactly what the future would hold after her Oscar win but she ended her short break with quite a bang plenty of incredible projects came to her in short order and though she may have craved more time off some of them were too good to pass up she told cinema.com for years I dreamed of having the kind of career where I could work with the best in the business and now that I had the opportunity I didn't have the guts to turn any of the films down she wasn't kidding in the space of just one year she appeared in Robert Altman's Dr T and the women alongside Richard Gere and Farrah Fawcett pay it forward with Kevin Spacey Cast Away with Tom Hanks and what women want with Mel Gibson after another busy year hunt once again shied away from the spotlight between 2001 and 2004 she took another break from screen acting as she told vulture in 2011 movie acting is a great job for your 20s you travel all over you have affairs with people and you throw yourself into one part and then another it gets more challenging as you get older between 2004 and 2010 she appeared in just four films and one TV show Jesus it was around this time she also began making forays into directing hunt told the time she had been enamored by work behind the camera for years as she found it just as important as acting for telling a good story she made her feature directorial debut with 2007's then she found me and followed it up with 2014's ride she has also directed episodes of numerous TV shows including Californication House of Lies This Is Us Feud Betty and Joan and the politician in 2012 she revealed to the Santa Monica mirror I love directing it's probably closer to my personality you're sitting here like this solving problems you're not naked in front of a bunch of strangers pouring your heart out in 2004 Helen Hunt and director Matthew Carnahan welcomed their daughter McKenna Lee naturally Han's priority shifted pretty heavily with the birth of her child she told the guardian she began spending more and more time with her family and continued to withdraw from the public eye by working less and less of course as her daughter got a bit older hun felt more comfortable taking on roles though in her typical fashion hunt continued to be very selective about the roles she pursued as it would mean leaving her daughter for extended periods of time she told the Santa Monica mirror in 2012. my daughter is eight now so I feel that's different I'm working quite a bit and that didn't feel right when she was six even though hunt kept working she was still a Hands-On mother driving her daughter to and from school whenever she could in fact in a 2018 episode of Live with kellyanne Ryan she admitted her daughter hadn't even seen her acting work I have never found the right moment to say drop your homework and your painting and watch me on TV Helen Hunt's acting career may have slowed down in the 2000s but it certainly didn't stop altogether in fact in 2012 she starred opposite John Hawks and William H Macy in the sessions the film was a critical Smash Hit and her performance received rave reviews she played a married woman who agrees to be a sex surrogate for a man who due to an illness had never had sex hunt had to do a fair amount of nudity for the film which though daunting at first was something she took on with her typical professionalism in fact according to USA Today director Ben Lewin publicly praised the actor for her respectful approach to filming nude scenes hunt ended up receiving an Oscar nomination for the role though at the time she didn't seem too concerned in fact her main focus continued to be her daughter during one interview with the independent she actually spent the whole time knitting a doll for McKenna when asked if she was ready to go through Awards season then again she replied I don't have any control over it look I'm knitting as fast as I can in 2017 Helen Hunt and her partner Matthew Carnahan split up after 16 years together according to InTouch weekly the breakup was fairly complicated and contentious reportedly hunt ended the relationship due to suspicion she had that Carnahan had broken her trust despite the latter's insistence he was innocent of any secretive transgressions however another source claimed that the couple had been on Rocky ground for years saying Matthew moved out a few times over the years Helen would always take him back and then time would pass and she'd kick him out again apparently the pair had mainly stayed together for so long for the sake of their daughter McKenna Lee several years later hunt appeared to be playing the field once again with closer weekly reporting that she was in another serious relationship as of 2020. another reason why Helen Hunt has become a less frequent fixture on our screens is that she spent more of her time working in theaters and attending plays in the time since her Oscar win she's appeared in Productions of Much Ado About Nothing and our town in 2003 she also appeared in lifetime 3 alongside fellow big screen star Marissa Tomei in 2012 hunt told the Santa Monica mirror about her love of acting on stage she explained there is something that happens in that room that is out of control and unpredictable especially when I did our town and was addressing 300 people just like I'm talking to you guys for page after page in another interview with Sarasota magazine hunt revealed that our town was her favorite project to date she told the publication that she performed in two Productions of the play in two different cities and that she would happily jump on the opportunity to act in it again hunt has continued acting on stage over the years in 2019 she made her musical theater debut with the play working in California in 2022 hunt did her first play in England appearing in Eureka day at the Old Vic theater in London after several decades of relative privacy Helen Hunt took on one of her biggest roles and years with the Stars comedy blind spotting hunt reportedly landed the role almost by accident when after watching the film that inspired the show she tweeted about how much she enjoyed it as hunt recalled to collider this praised soon snowballed into a collaboration she explained the team saw that and commented on my tweet and I commented And We messaged and the next thing you know I was with these guys and we were talking about how much we'd like to make something together they all worked on the idea during the pandemic and eventually the show was picked up by stars for hunt the project was a dream come true she gushed on the Kelly Clarkson show about how passionate she was for the material calling the series a bouquet of joy and beauty one of Helen Hunt's earliest hits was Twister the 1996 film about two Storm Chasers apparently hunt wanted to create a sequel to the film decades later according to the guardian hunt and her blind spotting collaborator David Diggs imagined a sequel with a more racially inclusive cast than the original even though both hunt and Diggs are well known in the industry no one was interested hunt told the guardian it was literally July 2020. the United States was on fire with the beginning of a 400-year overdue racial Reckoning and me too hadn't been that long ago there were three of us each representing a minority of our own one of us having starred in the original movie and we couldn't get a meeting in both Show Business and day-to-day life hunt has become more vocal about her own political standing in 2018 hunt appeared in a campaign video for the Democratic party encouraging everyone to vote and she's echoed that sediment on her Instagram regularly she has also been a vocal advocate for the black lives matter movement and publicly opposed Donald Trump as of 2023 Helen Hunt is still busy but she's managed to avoid the trappings of Fame and continues to maintain a fairly casual lifestyle reflecting on her ability to step back from Stardom she told the guardian there are some people who will live more exciting lives and keep going at that level and it's their whole life wherever they go forever unlike other stars hunt doesn't lead a glamorous life filled with premieres and Hollywood parties in fact more often than not she enjoys watching movies at her local Cinema just like everyone else despite the fact that her film industry connections could probably get her into any screening she wanted she told vulture she prefers to purchase popcorn at the counter and enjoy movies the old way when she isn't at the movie theater she's probably at home watching baseball or hanging with her family it's pretty remarkable to see how the Oscar Winner's life has shaken out foreign 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Length: 10min 58sec (658 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 02 2023