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Chris Pine needed to have a thick pores and skin arising in Hollywood amid a wrestle with zits early on in his profession
In a latest episode of the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, Pine said that he had “terrible pores and skin” as a youngster and after faculty and took subject with the truth that zits can typically be thought to be one thing solely youngsters undergo. In his case, he stated, it was “tremendously debilitating and actually severely emotionally incapacitating.”
“It was probably the most traumatic factors of my life however it’s my story,” he stated.
The dialogue was prompted by the podcast’s host Josh Horowitz asking Pine how he felt about feedback that “The O.C.” casting director Patrick Rush made final 12 months in Alan Sepinwall’s 2023 e book “Welcome to The O.C.: The Oral Historical past.”
In it, Rush revealed that Pine learn for the function of Ryan Atwood for the collection, however that his “actually dangerous pores and skin” on the time, to Rush, was “insurmountable.” The function of Atwood in the end went to actor Ben McKenzie, who starred within the collection throughout its run from 2003 to 2007.
Pine candidly stated that he felt like Rush “didn’t have to speak about it” within the e book.
“I can perceive that they needed to have fairly individuals doing fairly issues and dangerous zits is just not a key,” he stated. “I don’t wish to say I’m grateful for not having landed that… however I’m alright.”
Pine, after all, is greater than alright. He went on to have a profitable profession in Hollywood starring as Captain Kirk within the rebooted “Star Trek” franchise and showing in critically-acclaimed movies like “Don’t Fear Darling” and “Hell or Excessive Water.”
He stated will always remember the wrestle he went by means of to get so far.
“I understand how miserable it may be and the type of depths of sorrow it could possibly drag you to,” he stated. “However there’s a brighter day.”