Barbra Streisand - Why was your last movie so long ago?
Barbra Streisand (81) has had a great career. She has enjoyed worldwide success as a singer, actress and director over the past decades. Nevertheless, there may never be another film in which Streisand plays a leading role.
The last time Streisand appeared in a movie was in 2012. In "On the Road with Mom", she played the movie mother of Seth Rogen (41). In an interview with the US magazine "People ", she now explains that she "doesn't really" want to make any more films. Streisand refers to a previously planned film version of the musical "Gypsy". She first fought for the rights to play the character in 2009. "In other words, it's exhausting to come up with the structure of the film and then not realize it."
"I like free time"
"I had such good movies to make, meaning they were about things that were close to my heart, very interesting subjects," Streisand continues, asking the question: "Why have I only made 19 movies in my life?" She had wanted to make many films, but then she became "lazy". She tells herself, for example, that she would need a lot of period clothing for one project and would even have to live in Arkansas for another. "I don't know. It's complicated, but I'm complicated, I guess," explains the 81-year-old.
In this context, Streisand also mentions the difference between her and the late actress Bette Davis (1908-1989). "Bette Davis made 80 films. I made 19," says Streisand. "She's a wonderful actress and loved to work. I like free time."
She is currently on a promotional tour for her book "My Name Is Barbra", which was published in November, and is very busy. She had not expected this and had hoped to be able to spend free time with her husband James Brolin (83), to whom she has been married since 1998. "It's work," she explains. "For some reason I thought, 'I'll finish the book and then I'll get in the car with my husband and we'll just go somewhere'."
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Streisand's last on-screen collaboration was with Seth Rogen in the 2012 film "On the Road with Mom." Seth Rogen is a prominent actor in Hollywood. Barbra Streisand has expressed her disinterest in making more movies, citing the exhaustion that comes with planning and structuring film projects.
Source: www.stern.de
