Life is pretty tough, if you’re a hot guy just ask Theo James. Before that, he performed at an Italian resort The White Lotushe fought for his life and made out girls inside different. The actor – who made a surprisingly prominent appearance in the final season of The White Lotus – wasn’t happy with the roles he was offered after starring in the film series, as he found them all “pretty damn boring”.
In conversation with vanity fair, James said he feels typecast as Tobias “Four” Eaton after his breakthrough role on the teen dystopia series. “Careers are fun. They take you in directions that you try to control, but life is uncontrollable, as we know,” he said.
He continued, “You make a certain type of film and you sign deals that commit you to those roles for a certain amount of time and people see you in a certain light that you have to fight your way out of. It’s 100 percent that way with actors – and it definitely was that way for me.”
James portrayed his character in three films opposite Shailene Woodley and won four Teen Choice Awards over the two years, including one for his big makeout with Woodley. The film franchise had an ardent fan base as it was based on a best-selling novel series but eventually fizzled out with its third installment. allegiance.
The film was considered a box office flop and accumulated $179.2 million worldwide, despite its high production cost of $110–142 million. The colossal failure almost led to it Woodley quits actingand thus ended the series.
James starred in a number of projects following the trilogy, including the action thriller how it endsthe crime drama lying and stealing, and a variety of animated projects. However James said vanity fair that it was then that he decided to step out of the limelight to avoid starring in similar projects different — which he described as “those kinds of movies.”
He claimed, “I didn’t have the fluidity to move in the direction I wanted,” adding that he was typed into “pretty damn boring” roles.
Want to catch James playing? totally new type guy? New episodes of The White Lotus Premieres Sundays at 9 p.m. on HBO and HBO Max.
