{"id":37019,"date":"2025-09-01T18:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/37019\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T18:25:08","slug":"why-did-robin-wright-leave-us-actress-says-moving-to-england-was-liberating-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/37019\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Robin Wright leave US? Actress says moving to England was \u2018liberating\u2019 | Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Robin Wright<\/a>, best known for her role in Forrest Gump<\/a>, is opening up about her decision to move out of the United States. The 59-year-old, who was born in Texas and raised in California, recently shifted her base to England with her architect boyfriend<\/a>, Henry Smith.<\/p>\n

\"Robin Robin Wright has moved out of the US.(AFP) Robin Wright moves out of America<\/p>\n

In an interview with The Times UK, the Princess Bride actress spoke about why she decided to move to England. \u201cI love being in this country. There is a freedom of self here. People are so kind. They are living. They are not in the car in traffic, panicked on a phone call, eating a sandwich. That\u2019s most of America. Everything\u2019s rush, competition and speed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u2018America is a s*** show\u2019: Robin Wright<\/p>\n

She called her move \u201cliberating\u201d before saying that “America is a s*** show.” Wright, who was earlier married to Sean Penn, now rents a house by the seaside in England with her boyfriend, Henry Smith. Further talking about her move, she said, \u201cEveryone\u2019s building a huge house and I\u2019m just done with all that \u2014 I love the quiet. And I\u2019ve met my person. Finally.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also opened up about her relationship with Smith, revealing that they met at a country pub where he was accompanied by his dog. She asked if she could feed his dog, to which a man motioned towards her boyfriend, saying it was his dog. \u201cHenry was standing at the bar, 6\u20192\u2033, and he put his pint down, came over to me, and grabbed my shoulders,\u201d Wright recalled. \u201cHe goes, \u2018Who the f\u2013k are you?\u2019 And I said, \u2018Who the f\u2013k are you?\u2019 And that was it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also read: Tom Hanks and Robin Wright’s first look from Here revealed as they reunite after Forrest Gump; new film spans a century<\/a><\/p>\n

On the work front, Robin Wright will next be seen in Prime Video’s psychological\/erotic thriller show, The Girlfriend. Deadline reported that she has also directed a couple of episodes of the show, which premieres on September 10. The House of Cards star is not the first actor to move out of the US. Celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Rosie O\u2019Donnell, and Richard Gere have also left the country in recent years.<\/p>\n

FAQs:Why did Robin Wright move to England?<\/p>\n

She said she loves the freedom, kindness, and slower pace of life compared to the US.<\/p>\n

Who is Robin Wright\u2019s boyfriend?<\/p>\n

She is dating architect Henry Smith, whom she met at a country pub.<\/p>\n

What did she say about America?<\/p>\n

Wright called it a \u201cs*** show\u201d and described it as rushed, competitive, and stressful.<\/p>\n

Where is she living now?<\/p>\n

She rents a seaside house in England with Henry Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robin Wright, best known for her role in Forrest Gump, is opening up about her decision to move…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[28715,434,18,117,28711,28713,28714,19,17,28712,28710],"class_list":{"0":"post-37019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-actress-robin-wright","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-forrest-gump","13":"tag-henry-smith","14":"tag-house-of-cards","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-princess-bride","18":"tag-robin-wright"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}