14 DAY TRIAL // A little over a month ago, actress Amanda Bynes, was telling her followers on Twitter that, though still young, she’d realized she’d already grown tired of acting and that she saw nothing to love in it anymore. Consequently, she was retiring from the industry. Coming to show that a lot can happen in a month and that time truly does heal everything, Amanda has just changed her mind, as People magazine can confirm.
Whether the fact that she has a new movie coming out this September had anything to do with her decision to unretire – or to retire in the first place, for that matter – is not yet known. In her defense, Bynes, known for a series of roles in romantic comedies and television series, and her gorgeous legs, is playing the age card: at just 24, she’s allowed to make mistakes because she’s still figuring everything out.
“Amanda Bynes’ message going into this weekend was brief: I’ve unretired,’ the 24-year-old Tweeted – apparently reversing her month-old announcement that the funny everygirl on Nickelodeon’s sketch comedy series All That and her self-titled spin-off had decided to leave showbiz. […] Reflection is nothing new to the Southern California native. Last December, she’d told Cosmopolitan magazine, ‘I’m at that stage where I’m still young and maybe naive, but I’m figuring it out.’ Bynes can next be seen in the high-school comedy Easy A, due to open Sept. 17,” People writes.
A month ago, Bynes was just as determined to quit acting as she is now to stay. “Being an actress isn’t as fun as it may seem. If I don’t love something anymore, I stop doing it. I don’t love acting anymore, so I’ve stopped doing it. I know 24 is a young age to retire... I’ve never written the movies and tv shows I’ve been a part of. I’ve only acted like the characters the producers or directors wanted me to play,” Amanda was telling her followers in June this year, when she announced her decision to be done with the movie industry.
Come to think of it, this whole “retirement” thing could have been a PR stunt meant to generate more media coverage for Bynes and her upcoming film, word on the blogosphere has it. As the saying goes, no publicity is even worse than bad publicity.
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