What do professional actors do during long hiatuses between projects?

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I’m sure household names have plenty of wealth to life however they want, but what about the rest? Ill read Wikipedia articles about actors who have a 10+ year gap in their filmography and wonder, what the he’ll have they been doing to survive? Are they all waiters and bartenders during their downtime?

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It depends a lot. Most of these actors have other careers. It might be in studios where they do work that is not creditable like tallent screening, they might work as actors in other fields then movies such as theater or host or they can work completely unrelated jobs. But there are people who just streight up quit working as they have made up enough funds to retire early, either permantent or temporary. It is for example popular, not only in the movie industry, to retire from your career early after having kids to spend more time with the family and then to return to your career when the kids require less attention. They may do some work in the meantime but it is hard to film movies or tour the country when you are prioritizing the family.

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