John Corbett made legions of fans swoon with his performances in the “ Sex and the City ” and “ My Big Fat Greek Wedding ” franchises, but he now believes a professional detour might have been to his benefit. Appearing on the “ Fly on the Wall ” podcast last week, the actor deemed the bulk of his work in Hollywood “unfulfilling,” and suggested he’d have opted for a different career path entirely if he’d known how things would turn out. “Look, I’m at the fourth quarter of the football game now, in life and in show biz ― it’s just a fact,” Corbett, 63, told hosts Dana Carvey and David Spade.
“So I can reveal now I picked the fucking wrong thing to do with my life.” Though the actor acknowledged he’s “made a lot of money” and now lives “in a beautiful home,” he wishes he’d had more creative input on the film and TV projects he was a part of. “As far as a fulfilling creative work life, I didn’t write one fucking line,” he said.
“I didn’t write one joke to make people laugh. So it’s been unfulfilling on that level.” He went on to note: “Anybody listening that’s never been on a movie set, if you came to visit any one of us for two days ― just two of those 14-hour days ― you’d say: ’I never wanna be here ever, ever again.
This is like watching paint dry.’” Corbett, a West Virginia native, landed his first on-camera role in 1988, when he appeared on “ The Wonder Years ” as Louis, the hippie boyfriend of K.
