Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen tell why they quit acting
ASHLEY Olsen says she quit acting because she didn’t have time for it, while Mary-Kate says she quit because she didn't have control over the product.
ASHLEY Olsen says she quit acting because she didn’t have time for it, while Mary-Kate says she quit because she didn't have control over the product.
Olsen – who, along with her twin sister Mary-Kate, first appeared on television aged just nine months in Full House – last starred in a movie in 2004′s New York Minute and admits she couldn’t give her full commitment to the big screen because of her fashion business, which incorporates four successful lines which she co-runs with her sister.
"I was reading scripts, and ultimately I just said to the people who are representing me, ‘I need to do things 100 per cent. I don’t feel like I can give you 100 per cent of my time. There’s a lot of compromise in the entertainment industry. I can’t sit in this room and audition for this part.’"
While Mary-Kate went on to appear in Weeds and 2008 movie The Wackness, she also stopped acting, as she felt a lack of control over the finished product.
She told Allure magazine: "I am not great at not being able to control the end product."
The former teen stars also admitted they feel frustrated at the way people perceive them.
Mary-Kate said: "I think people looked at us with the perception of ‘Oh, you just have everything. You can do whatever. [Strangers assumed we] had enough money to just do nothing – or why would we go to college? And it’s such an uneducated perspective! You still have to grow within business. You have to take a chance."
And despite their hugely successful fashion empire, Mary-Kate Olsen said they still find their credentials questioned.
"We still get the question. The question of: ‘So do you like designing?’ ‘How involved are you?’ It’s not like you wake up one day and have a huge company with four or five different companies within the companies."