14 DAY TRIAL // Whether you love him for his acting chops or for his good looks and piercing baby blue eyes, Chris Pine sure seems like a complete package. To make him even more lovable is the fact that he’s extremely well-spoken and smart, which is obvious in his brand new interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
Pine will be seen next in “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,” in which he plays lead, so this interview is meant to boost interest in the film. He talks about politics, his career, social media, the paparazzi, and playing the fame game, which he says he doesn’t do.
Speaking of the paparazzi and fame, the actor also recalls working with Lindsay Lohan on “Just My Luck” and how much insanity followed her wherever she went. Obviously, he can’t but connect the dots to her downfall shortly afterwards, but, to his credit, he never actually says a bad word about her.
“It was a real cyclone of insanity, like being around The Beatles,” Chris says of working with Lindsay. “It was fascinating to watch, and in hindsight it’s really a distinct moment in someone’s life when you see what’s really wonderful about what we get to do and what’s really dangerous about it.”
“Hollywood is like living in a weird bubble. A bunch of people take care of you and get you stuff, and you’re the center of that little microcosmic world. You start believing that it is real and… you deserve it,” he muses.
When this was happening with Lindsay, he made a choice not to let himself sucked into that microcosmic world, but to keep his head down and work as hard as he had before. He wanted a career in film, but he never wanted the celebrity that goes with it.
This would explain why he hates the paparazzi with such a passion, saying that they totally “suck” – and an F-word we can’t reproduce in writing here.
“The light of my flame was really bright after Star Trek [in 2009], and I had that bizarre convergence of everything’s so intense for about a month, and then it died down. During that time, they’re [expletive]-ing chasing you, and you’re driving at speeds you shouldn’t be driving at. Thankfully, I don’t really have much of that anymore,” Pine says.
To avoid this type of unpleasant situation, when the spotlight is upon him, Pine doesn’t do social media. He finds it a waste of time, while he deems the Internet a “caustic” place where people gather to spew venom and spread lies.