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Brad Pitt's SHOCKING Hygiene Habit Revealed by Former Roommate Jason Priestley
Jason Priestley can't crook backmost the clock, but helium figured retired a mode to dilatory it down a bit.
After spending much than 3 decades surviving successful Los Angeles, the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum moved to Nashville with his wife, Naomi Priestley, and their 2 kids—and, suffice it to say, they are loving their caller zip code,
"It's conscionable easiness of operation," Priestly told E! News successful an exclusive interview from his Music City home. "It's truthful overmuch easier to navigate your beingness here. And it's a cool, absorbing place."
The Vancouver autochthonal besides realized what he'd been missing during each his years in Southern California.
"We get 4 seasons alternatively of 1 season," helium explained. "Because you person markers, and you cognize what clip of twelvemonth it is, it seems to marque clip spell a small spot slower. There was thing astir the homogeneity of Los Angeles, wherever it was, 'Is it March oregon is it October? I don't know, I can't truly tell.' So clip conscionable benignant of evaporates. Whereas surviving here, with 4 precise chiseled seasons, you person to instrumentality vantage of what the play is offering."
He and his spouse of 19 years picked the Tennessee capital in the archetypal spot due to the fact that they recovered a precocious schoolhouse that seemed a cleanable acceptable for their daughter Ava, 16, aft not being impressed with their L.A.-area options. And erstwhile lad Dashiell, 14, was accepted, too...
"My wife and I conscionable said to each other, 'If the kids get into the school, we're going to Nashville!'" Priestley recalled. "And lo and behold, they some got in, truthful we moved and we emotion it."
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They saw Ava disconnected to junior prom successful April and Dashiell has already caught the show bug, doing schoolhouse plays and nonrecreational dependable work.
Priestley, meanwhile, was lone 17 erstwhile helium moved to L.A.—"To this day," helium said, "I don't cognize wherefore my parents fto maine go"—and ended up sharing an flat with eventual Loverboy histrion Bernie Coulson and another audition-goer named Brad Pitt crashing connected the couch.
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He and Pitt led beauteous abstracted lives, speech from their who-can-go-longest-without-showering-and-shaving contests (which usually ended when someone needed to hose disconnected for a job, different Pitt ever won), but "we were each super-supportive of each other," Priestley reflected. They saved their feelings for the camera, though, nary of them being the benignant to "come location and hitch a teardrop away, [like] 'I didn't get that occupation on One Life to Live.'"
Priestley really moved backmost to Vancouver amid a 1988 WGA strike, but past landed the sitcom Sister Kate in 1989. That lasted 1 play and past it was onto his life-altering run as Minnesota transplant Brandon Walsh on Beverly Hills, 90210, which premiered successful 1990.
These days, being 2,000 miles distant from Hollywood hasn't gotten successful the mode of Priestley taking connected the opportunities that telephone to him. The 54-year-old astir precocious costarred successful the CW transgression dramedy Wild Cards and the based-on-a-true-story Börje—The Journey of a Legend, premiering May 2 successful the U.S. connected the streaming work Viaplay.
Alongside Valter Skarsgård as Swedish defenseman Börje Salming, the archetypal European subordinate inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, Priestley plays Toronto Maple Leafs scout Gerry McNamara in the six-part bid acceptable successful the 1970s, a task particularly close to his heart.
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"I grew up watching Börje Salming play hockey connected TV each Saturday night," Priestly shared, flexing his lifelong fandom. "He was a larger than beingness fig successful Canada, revered by teammates, revered by opponents. He single-handedly changed the cognition of what European players were susceptible of successful the North American game."
Speaking of people whom a definite procreation grew up watching connected TV each week, Priestley is 1 of those, too—but helium mostly has to permission the location to beryllium acknowledged arsenic a fable successful his ain right.
His kids "don't attraction astatine all" that helium starred successful 1 of the seminal shows of the 1990s, Priestley shared. He'll amusement them throwback pictures, "like, 'Look, guys, I utilized to bash that, look astatine however chill I was.' They're like, 'Yeah, whatever, Dad.' It's sad, but I cognize arsenic a genitor I'm not unsocial successful this. There conscionable comes a constituent wherever you're not chill to your kids anymore."
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The fans hailed him arsenic highly cool, however, erstwhile helium joined the remainder of the Beverly Hills, 90210 cast astatine Steel City Con successful Pittsburgh past month, bantering with Brian Austin Green, Ian Ziering, Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth, Tori Spelling and Gabrielle Carteris as if nary clip had gone by.
"I conscionable emotion proceeding astir what everybody's doing now," Priestley said. "We person a large clip whenever we're together. We're each inactive telling jokes, inactive laughing. They are immoderate of my favourite people."
The applause astatine their April 13 sheet notably deed a crescendo for Doherty, who shared successful November that the breast crab she's been battling for years had spread to her bones.
"Shannen is super-tough," Priestley, who played her duplicate member on 90210, said appreciatively. "She's a combatant and she's not gonna fto thing get successful her way. Where she's astatine with her prognosis now, and the mode that she conscionable keeps moving forward—she's a unit of nature, that one."
90210 turned each of them into huge stars (Priestley has joked that his overnight occurrence lone took 10 years to achieve), but not everyone became a taste touchstone, an archetype arsenic good arsenic an actor, arsenic ended up being the lawsuit for Ava and Dashiell's dad.
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"Is it James Dean oregon Jason Priestley?" Justin Walker's Christian memorably asked arsenic helium held up a leather overgarment for the inspection of Alicia Silverstone's Cher successful the 1995 teen classic Clueless.
While helium surely had the threads—"I had a mullet, I had a biker overgarment similar that, I had everything"—Priestley attributes the iconic shout-out to alliteration.
"They should person said, 'Is it James Dean oregon Luke Perry?'" helium said, nodding to his precocious costar who drew all the Dean comparisons backmost successful the day. "But alternatively they wanted the 'J' and the 'J,' right? So they defaulted to me."
One day, his kids volition appreciate all of this. But until they do, read connected to spot much stars who near Hollywood down and are enjoying the seasons connected their ain terms:
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Ian Somerhalder
The Vampire Diaries alum hasn't sunk his teeth into a caller relation since Netflix's 2019 bid V-Wars. Instead, the dada of 2 (with woman Nikki Reed) has dug a small deeper into a passionateness project, namely his ngo to combat clime alteration by improving the world's soil.
"I stepped distant from acting a small implicit 4 years agone to rise my kids, physique my companies and get these films launched," Somerhalder told E! News successful November of launching the 2020 documentary Kiss the Ground and its recently released travel up Common Ground, each detailing the request for regenerative farming.
When helium looks years down the road, helium continued, "I volition beryllium a rancher and gathering bequest brands, whether it's my bourbon oregon my wellness and wellness company, and the regenerative agriculture and steadfast ungraded absorption practices that I unrecorded by and our household lives by. That's wherever my beingness was going. So erstwhile radical accidental 'Why bash you care?' That's wherefore I care. Because that's who I am, that's what I'm going to become."
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Jennette McCurdy
On a February 2021 occurrence of her podcast Empty Inside, the iCarly alum told impermanent Anna Faris that she decided to halt acting a fewer years backmost and is present focused connected opportunities successful penning and directing, successful summation to hosting the podcast.
"My acquisition with acting is, I'm truthful ashamed of the parts I've done successful the past," revealed Jennette, who elaborate her acquisition successful her 2022 memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died. "I resent my vocation successful a batch of ways. I consciousness truthful unfulfilled by the roles that I played and felt similar it was the astir cheesy, embarrassing. I did the shows that I was connected from similar 13 to 21, and by 15, I was already embarrassed. My friends astatine 15, they're not like, 'Oh, cool, you're connected this Nickelodeon show.' It was embarrassing." Though she hasn't wholly written disconnected a 2nd act. "I bash consciousness similar lone done penning the publication person I gotten to a spot wherever I deliberation determination mightiness beryllium a mode of exploring acting that doesn't transportation that baggage that I carried with maine for truthful long," she told E! News successful October 2022. "Maybe if I constitute thing for myself. I deliberation that'd truly beryllium possibly 1 of the lone ways I could benignant of effort exploring it again."
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Meghan Markle
This felt similar thing of a no-brainer. If we had a changeable to wed Prince Harry, dedicate our beingness to the philanthropic causes that substance astir to america and summation entree to the Queen's awesome postulation of tiaras, bidding ta-ta to Tinseltown would consciousness similar an good sacrifice.
Following successful the path Grace Kelly took from Hollywood to the Palace of Monaco, Markle near down her location successful Toronto—and her breakout relation connected Suits—for a beingness successful The Firm. Though, present that she and Harry have shed their elder roles, she's edging backmost into the concern acknowledgment to their new multi-year production deal with Netflix.
Cameron Diaz
Having made upwards of 40 movies since her debut successful 1994's The Mask, the histrion was agelong overdue for a interruption erstwhile filming wrapped connected 2014's Annie. "I conscionable decided that I wanted antithetic things retired of my life," she explained to pal Gwyneth Paltrow of her eventual enactment of self-care. "I had gone truthful hard for truthful long, working, making films and it's specified a grind. When you're making a movie—it's a cleanable excuse—they ain you. You're determination for 12 hours a time for months connected extremity and you person nary clip for thing else."
And determination was plenty more she'd similar to explore, from penning (she followed up her 2013 New York Times best-seller The Body Book with 2016's The Longevity Book) to starting a family with hubby Benji Madden. But portion she confessed to InStyle successful 2019, "I don't miss performing. Right present I'm looking astatine the scenery of wellness and each that," seemingly she could beryllium swayed into making astatine slightest 1 encore.
"We conscionable begged and pleased connected my knees, like, 'Just springiness the radical 1 much again,'" Jamie Foxx told E! News of getting Diaz to motion on for the upcoming Netflix movie Back successful Action. "We emotion her, we've been waiting connected her and this is conscionable gonna beryllium fantastic."
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Terrence Howard
The histrion insisted there'd beryllium nary encore aft helium finished his five-year tally connected Empire. When Extra asked the Oscar nominee astir his aboriginal up of the philharmonic play series' sixth and last play successful 2019, helium responded, "Oh, I'm done with acting. I'm done pretending."
And though helium returned to acceptable for a fistful of projects, helium again announced his plans to discontinue acting portion promoting his Peacock bid The Best Man: The Final Chapters successful 2022. "I've gotten to the constituent wherever present I've fixed the precise champion that I person arsenic an actor," helium told ET. "Now I'm enjoying watching different caller endowment travel around, and I don't privation to bash an impersonation of myself."
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Jack Gleeson
Once his time arsenic King Joffrey came to a sudden, purple-faced extremity successful 2014, the then-21-year-old told EW he was getting retired of the game. "I've been acting since property 8," the Game of Thrones prima explained of his decision. "I conscionable stopped enjoying it arsenic overmuch arsenic I utilized to."
No longer a kid star, a spot of the magic had worn off. "Now there's the imaginable of doing it for a living, whereas up until present it was ever thing I did for recreation with my friends, oregon successful the summertime for immoderate fun," helium continued. "I enjoyed it. When you marque a surviving from something, it changes your narration with it. It's not similar I hatred it, it's conscionable not what I privation to do." But aft a six-year break, helium whitethorn conscionable beryllium ready to resume his reign, joining the formed of BBC's upcoming series Out of Her Mind.
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Phoebe Cates
When Fast Times astatine Ridgemont High's imagination miss (Jennifer Aniston took connected her portion in September's virtual array read) wed chap histrion Kevin Kline successful 1989, they "agreed to alternate truthful that we're ne'er moving astatine the aforesaid time," helium told Playboy of their program to attraction for lad Owen and girl Greta (a vocalist who present goes by the signifier sanction Frankie Cosmos). However, helium continued, "whenever it's been her slot to work, Phoebe has chosen to enactment with the children." Though she made a cameo successful pal Jennifer Jason Leigh's 2001 indie The Anniversary Party, Cates devotes astir of her clip to operating her New York City boutique Blue Tree.
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Rick Moranis
At the tallness of his Ghostbusters and Honey, I... fame, the '80s prima stepped distant from filmmaking not agelong aft his woman passed distant from bosom crab successful 1991 to absorption connected raising his kids Rachel and Mitchell. Though helium hasn't had a live-action relation since 1997, adjacent passing connected a cameo successful Paul Feig's 2016 Ghostbusters remake, he's remained a treasured taste icon, arsenic evidenced by the outrage over reports that he'd been assaulted while walking successful New York City Oct. 1. Thankfully there's bully quality for fans: he'll marque his triumphant return alongside Josh Gad successful the forthcoming Disney reboot Shrunk.
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Leelee Sobieski
Once she wed fashion decorator Adam Kimmel in 2010, the Never Been Kissed standout hinted that she was possibly kinda done with movies. "Ninety percent of acting roles impact truthful overmuch intersexual worldly with different people, and I don't privation to bash that," she explained to Vogue. "It's specified a unusual occurrence to play with, and our narration is surely beardown capable to grip it, but if you're going to locomotion done fire, determination has to beryllium thing unthinkable connected the different side."
Her determination was solidified aft son Martin joined older sister Louisanna successful 2014. "I don't bash movie worldly anymore. I americium wholly an outsider! I … americium conscionable a ma and an outsider," she noted to Us Weekly astatine a 2016 event, explaining that she helps Kimmel with his concern and paints connected the side. "I americium conscionable focused connected my kids. I deliberation that's chiefly wherefore I stopped."
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Portia de Rossi
She'd done Ally McBeal. And Nip/Tuck. Then Arrested Development and yet Scandal erstwhile the Aussie realized that possibly she was ready to crook the dial. "I was approaching 45 and I conscionable benignant of…was wondering is determination thing that I could tackle present that I've ne'er done earlier that would beryllium truly challenging and different," she explained connected woman Ellen DeGeneres' eponymous speech amusement successful 2018. "I benignant of knew what acting would look similar for maine for the adjacent 10, 20 years, truthful I decided to discontinue and commencement a business."
Her consumer-art company, General Public, already a enactment successful progress, she had conscionable 1 portion to finish. "I called Mitch Hurwitz, who's the creator of Arrested Development and I said, 'If determination is simply a play 5, I won't beryllium doing it due to the fact that I discontinue acting. And helium seemed truly knowing and helium wholly got it. We had a large conversation, and past helium wrote maine into 5 episodes."
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Daniel Day-Lewis
To beryllium fair, erstwhile you've won 3 Academy Awards, what's near to accomplish? Shortly aft receiving his sixth Oscar motion for his last film, 2017's Phantom Thread, the thespian had his rep contented a connection informing fans that helium "will nary longer beryllium moving arsenic an actor. He is immensely grateful to each of his collaborators and audiences implicit the galore years. This is simply a backstage determination and neither helium nor his representatives volition marque immoderate further remark connected this subject."
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Bridgit Mendler
The Good Luck Charlie alum took a measurement backmost from the spotlight successful 2018 erstwhile she began pursuing a master's grade from MIT, aboriginal earning a PhD from the institution. She's besides pursuing a instrumentality grade from Harvard Law School.
And arsenic if that weren't enough, Bridgit besides launched her ain startup Northwood Space, which aims to physique crushed outer stations to assistance nonstop and person information from space, which she became CEO of successful Feb. 2023.
