Tyrese Gibson reveals that he doesn’t want the life of Will Smith and Vin Diesel. Instead, the actor says he would rather not become a movie star.
During a press conference in promotion of his 25-minute short film, Shame, Tyrese gibson opened up and revealed that he doesn’t want to become a movie star.
The Fast and Furious and Transformers leading man, described the struggles he faces as an actor. “When you become really successful in box office, you get typecast and put into a box,” he said, according to a report from Film Journal.
The singer then said he doesn’t want to be a “movie star,” explaining, “My interest is not to be a movie star, I’m just focused on the arts. I love it. I got a lot of people that look up to me, and the fact that I have this God-given stage to motivate and inspire people, that’s the biggest gift in the world. It’s something that I don’t take for granted.”
Even though he’s worked on several big budget movies, he is choosing to avoid becoming an A-list actor because of the pressure it puts on you as a person.
“You got people waking up every day saying, ‘How can I be more famous?’ That’s not my interest. Being around the Vin Diesels and the Will Smiths of the world, I don’t want that life,” he said. “That’s a different level of pressure that I don’t necessarily want to carry.”
Either way, Tyrese Gibson said he would love to appear several big budget movies including working with high-profile directors such as “Paul Haggis, Quentin Tarantino, Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, Lee Daniels,James Mangold, Martin Scorsese … these guys have a list of people they call all the time, the same f—ing people … I gotta be on this list. So instead of me complaining, I said I’m gonna create something to get on their radar.”
