![]() ![]() This led to a career in bluegrass music - and multiple Grammy nominations and wins. ![]() "The great banjo player Earl Scruggs was doing an album, and he asked me to play on it," Martin said. Soon after, however, the funnyman fell off the radar entirely and, according to IMDb, has not appeared in essentially any studio productions since 2009's It's Complicated. So why did Martin stop acting? Let's just say he certainly has not left the entertainment business completely. Scroll down to find out why you do not see Steve Martin in films anymore.Īs he explained to Newsweek in 2017, Martin shifted his focus to banjo playing in the early 2000s. He was hilarious in starring roles like The Jerk and Father of the Bride, and by the 2000s, no family comedy felt complete without him - from Cheaper By the Dozen to Bringing Down the House alongside Queen Latifah. ![]() (We see you, George Clooney!) Regardless, Martin very overtly stopped appearing in anything.ĭecades ago, the snow-haired, bespectacled comedian seamlessly made the transition from rock star-level touring comic equally adept actor. And honestly, who knows why? Sometimes actors probably feel like they have done their part in contributing to the film zeitgeist, or in other cases, they are off with their amazing wife saving the world. For background, from Joaquin Phoenix's (fittingly) strange announcement he was quitting acting in 2008, to Daniel Day Lewis' similar 2017 claims he was doing so, sometimes huge names in Hollywood call it quits at the height of their fame. ![]()
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