Robin Wright has officially joined the long list of Hollywood elites who trash America on their way out the door. The House of Cards actress told The Times of London she now calls Britain home, declaring flatly: “America is a s—show.”
At 59, Wright says she’s done with what she views as the chaos of the United States — traffic, phone calls, fast food in the car, competition, speed. In her telling, life in the U.K. is all kindness and “freedom of self.”
She plans to rent a seaside home with her family and dogs, happily leaving behind the rat race of her native country. “It’s liberating to be done,” Wright said. “Be done with searching, looking and getting 60 percent of what you wanted.”
The irony is thick. Wright is celebrating “freedom” in a country where thousands are arrested every year for speech crimes — where expressing unapproved political views online can land a citizen in handcuffs.
Meanwhile, she dismisses America, home to the First Amendment, as a “s—show.” Like so many of her Hollywood peers, Wright’s caricature of America says more about her bubble than about the nation itself.
She’s not alone. Celebrity threats to abandon America have become a tired tradition whenever Donald Trump is on the ballot. Whoopi Goldberg, Miley Cyrus, Amy Schumer, George Lopez, and others all vowed to leave in 2016. More recently, Sharon Stone, Cher, and Barbra Streisand promised to bolt if Trump returned in 2024.
Few followed through. But Rosie O’Donnell and Ellen DeGeneres did, announcing they were leaving after Trump’s re-election. Wright now joins their ranks as one of the few who actually packed her bags.
It’s not as though Wright’s résumé is lacking. From The Princess Bride and Forrest Gump to Wonder Woman and Justice League, she has enjoyed a career built entirely on American audiences. Yet the country that made her a household name, in her words, is no longer good enough.
This is the double life of Hollywood: using America’s wealth, freedom, and audiences to build a career, then denouncing the very same system once it’s convenient to posture for elite approval abroad. Wright may now find her “freedom of self” in Britain, but it’s the United States that gave her the platform to live as she does.
