It’s fair to say that John Corbett has had a pretty successful acting career since starting out in the 1980s, with the star arguably best known for playing Carrie Bradshaw’s love interest Aidan Shaw in Sex and the City.
And older fans perhaps know him for his role of Chris Stevens in the ‘90s comedy-drama Northern Exposure, for which he earned an Emmy nomination in 1992.
But despite all of this, 63-year-old John admitted in a recent podcast appearance that he doesn’t feel fulfilled by acting — and actually believes that he may have chosen the wrong career path.
Opening up to Dana and David, John said: “Look, I’m at the fourth quarter of the football game now, in life and in showbiz. It’s just a fact. So I can reveal now I picked the fucking wrong thing to do with my life.”
“For anybody listening, it’s going to sound like I’m an ungrateful prick,” he then acknowledged. “But I’m just telling you, for my work life, I’ve made a lot of money, I live in a beautiful home, people come to me in every fucking restaurant I go in — I’m a friend to the world! But as far as a fulfilling, creative work life? I didn’t write one fucking line. I didn’t write one joke to make people laugh, so it’s been unfulfilling on that level.”
John also admitted that how unreliable acting can be is another factor in his lack of fulfillment, explaining: “At my best, I work five or six weeks a year. I have to sit and wait for the phone to ring, and in ’22, it never rang once. So for that whole year, I’m like: ‘Besides playing my guitar and piano at home, how do I express myself?’”