Matthew Lillard didn’t pursue acting with designs on being rich and famous.
“I found acting because it was the only thing I was ever good at,” the Scream star told E! News’ Francesca Amiker in an exclusive interview. “The only thing any adult ever said to me is like, ‘Hey, you know, you should keep doing that.’ So I didn’t chase it to be successful. I chased because I had nothing else.”
Now, after 30 years in Hollywood, Lillard feels his career is “coming around second base, headed for home.”
He explained, “You just want to keep doing great work. I think that so many times, actors lose the plot, get disinterested, don’t work a long time and fall out of the zeitgeist.”
But, happily, “things are really great right now,” he added. “It’s a blessing to have work, to still be relevant, to grow into my age and have the opportunity to keep feeding my kids.”