Katie Holmes almost quit acting at the age of 17

• Katie Holmes shared she almost gave up on her acting career.
• She was 17 years old when work dried up after her debut film appearance.
• The star struggled to find any more acting roles.

Katie Holmes almost gave up acting when she was 17 years old when work dried up after her debut film appearance.

After wrapping up filming on Ang Lee’s 1997 movie “The Ice Storm,” the “Dawson’s Creek” star struggled to find any more acting roles. Katie reveals that she initially believed her her career was gone after just one film.

During an appearance on ‘ The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ on Tuesday (17.01.23), she explained: “Well, I was 17, and I remember we came to New York, my mom and I, and we shot it, and I thought, ”Oh, this is what I want to do. Great’.

“And then I went home, and I was putting myself on tape for different auditions, and I wasn’t really getting anything and I thought, ‘Oh, well, that might be it. You know. That might be all there is.’ But it was okay, ’cause I was like, ‘You know what, that’s okay. Like, that was an amazing experience’. And I can, like, tell my grandkids and I’ll be fine.”

Host Jimmy then asked: “You were happy with that?” and Katie replied: “Well, I mean, I wanted more jobs, but I was like, ‘Don’t be, you know, greedy.”

Katie then recalled she “got lucky” landing the film role because she’d gone to Los Angeles to take part in the auditions for pilot season and she got the job on her second day.

She said: “It was my second day in Los Angeles and my first audition. I got lucky.”

But Katie persisted, and the following year she was cast as Joey in the teen drama “Dawson’s Creek,” which catapulted her to fame throughout the world.

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