Oct 5, 2010 06:59 GMT  ·  By
Wentworth Miller is focusing on becoming a screenwriter, may put acting career on hold
   Wentworth Miller is focusing on becoming a screenwriter, may put acting career on hold

This could very well mean that fans won’t get to see this handsome actor onscreen too soon, but, as the saying goes, if it’s what makes him happy… Wentworth Miller says that right now, he’s in between projects and focusing on becoming a screenwriter.

The actor, whom fans fell in love with on the hit television series “Prison Break” and then got to see again in the latest installment of the “Resident Evil” franchise, “Afterlife,” may be taking a step back from acting.

In a recent interview with USA Today, the star says writing scripts has always been a passion of his – and he just recently found out that he could actually turn it into a proper job.

For weeks on end, Miller proved himself wrong by finishing a movie script, when he had told himself beforehand that this was something he could never do.

Now, he wants to live to see the day when he has a good script finished, and then a movie is made after it – and he gets to go to the premiere and be “pleasantly surprised.”

“The idea started taking shape maybe four years ago. I like to say I spent four years telling myself I didn’t know how to write a script, and then four weeks proving myself wrong,” the 38-year-old star says.

He didn’t study specialized literature on how to write a script, mostly because he drew on his own experience on television and in movies to know what makes a good script.

Still, it didn’t come easy to him, even if he’s an English major at Princeton University. Writing “Stoker” and the prequel “Uncle Charlie” was perhaps more physically demanding than any role he ever did.

“It was frenzied, but in an enjoyable way, and it was quite physical. My shoulders were up around my ears by the time I was finished just from sitting in one position!” the actor reveals.

Eventually, after re-writing the scripts for the pilots and parts he auditioned for, Miller got the hang of it, as the saying goes – and is now convinced he can actually cut it as a good screenwriter.

“I feel as though we’re living in a time where you write a screenplay for a movie and then it becomes a comic book and a video game and a Broadway musical and an ice show,” Miller jokes.

“Right now, all I want to do is hand it off to a group of people I trust as much as one can in this business, see the movie made and made well, and then I’ll see you at the premiere. I’ll sit down with my bucket of popcorn and hopefully be surprised in a positive way,” the actor further says.