• Mia Waskiowska quit her job as a famous movie star in Hollywood.
• She left it because she felt “very disconnected” and the lifestyle “didn’t suit” her.
• Now Mia has now spoken out about her choice to go back to her native Australia.

Mia Waskiowska quit her job as a famous movie star in Hollywood because she felt “very disconnected” from any “greater community” and the lifestyle “didn’t suit” her.

The 33-year-old actress had her US onscreen debut in HBO’s ‘In Treatment’ in 2008 then secured a number of big screen roles in the likes of ‘Jane Eyre’, ‘Alice in Wonderland’, ‘The Kids Are All Right’ and ‘Crimson Peak’, before dropping out of the spotlight not long after the release of ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’.

Now Mia has now spoken out about her choice to go back to her native Australia, stating that she needed to establish a strong foundation for herself.

She told IndieWire: “I didn’t entirely like the lifestyle of going back to back to back. I felt really disconnected from any greater community.

“I was doing it since I had been 17, well more like 15, but really working a lot from 17, I spent 10 to 15 years, completely like, new city, new country, every three months, and it’s like starting school again every few months.

“Especially when you’re younger, when you don’t have that base, I found that really hard.

“At the same time, maybe if the payoff is good and you feel really great doing it, then that’s OK, but I didn’t, so I wanted to establish that for myself on a personal level and have more of a sense of somewhere I belong that’s not just on a film set that ends every few weeks.”

The “Blueback” actress is currently “very pleased” with her life and won’t ever pursue a career in movies with the same vigour that she did in the past.

Asked if she’d make a full-time return to Hollywood, she said: “I’m pretty content. If I can have the best of both worlds, which is dip in and out of it occasionally, I’d be really happy, but I wouldn’t ever be in that place where I was just on a treadmill.

“I want to do more things in life other than be in a trailer. It’s great, and there are lots of great things, [but] the perception of it is quite different from the reality and it didn’t suit me as a person.

“You can really lose perspective because you’re treated quite strangely. When that’s your only reality, it’s quite strange.”

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