“I didn’t know how to handle walking down the street.”
The pressures of fame are surely great at any age, but finding widespread recognition at the age of 19, following back-to-back hits with Juno and Superbad, led Michael Cera into a crisis which almost caused him to quit acting altogether. As the actor returns to the big screen this month in the hotly-anticipated Barbie, Cera is reflecting on his struggles with handling newfound fame at such a young age, recalling how he felt "uncomfortable" in himself.
Speaking with The Guardian, the actor shared how he "didn’t know how to handle walking down the street. Fame makes you very uncomfortable in your own skin, and makes you paranoid and weird. There were lots of great things about it, and I met a lot of amazing people, but there’s a lot of bad energies, too, ones that I was not equipped to handle.
The experience was nearly enough for Cera to leave acting behind, as he revealed "there was a point where I wanted to stop taking jobs that would make me more famous,” citing that he had turned down an opportunity to host Saturday Night Live for fear it would raise his profile even further. He continued “I was kind of having a bit of a crisis. I was really not enjoying the level of heat. I really didn’t know if I was going to keep being an actor.
RELATED: Michael Cera Leads a Mission to Save Humanity Through a Washing Machine in First 'Command Z' Trailer Michael Cera vs. the World Of course though, Cera thankfully did not quit acting, citing that following Superbad he had already signed on to play the titular role in Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and didn't want to drop out of the project. The film would go on to become a cult hit, with both Cera and Wright set to return with an animated adaption of the original graphic novel for Netflix.
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