17 Actors Who Struggled To Get Roles After Their 'Big Break' (And Why)

However, after the movie premiered, he started getting offers from some of Hollywood's biggest producers.

On SiriusXM's The Jess Cagle Show, he said, "Our movie came out in March. And in April, I got a call from Kevin Feige, asking me to join the MCU family. And I was so touched, and I, I was like, all that time when, when nobody wanted me, and he was one of the most powerful producers on the planet, says, 'Hey, we want you to be in Loki Season 2.'"

Everything Everywhere All At Once broke that cycle by casting her in the lead.

She told the LA Times' podcast The Envelope, "The first thing is you feel like, 'Finally, thank you. You guys [the directors] see me, you guys really see, and you're giving me the opportunity to show that I'm capable of doing all this.' ... All at once, it was very emotional because this means that you are the one who's leading this whole process, who's telling the story."

She told BuzzFeed, "I was offered some gang-type movies on a much lesser scale. I remember taking my Golden Globe and my Oscar and just saying, 'I'm never gonna do those kinds of parts again. I just won't.' And I showed them. I didn't work in a movie for seven years."

He told Daily Beast, "I'm kind of tired of staying quiet about it. I want people to know that it's not always dandelions and roses when you're doing something like Aladdin. 'He must have made millions. He must be getting all these offers.' It's none of those things."

She told the Happy Sad Confused podcast, "It was like starting back at the bottom and working my way up all the way again."

She told Entertainment Weekly, "It was surprising. Because I thought they were going to just back up the truck and drop them off at my house, right? When you have a historic win like that, you think, 'Oh, this is going to fundamentally change.' It did fundamentally change me, but it didn't change my place in the business overnight. I still had to go back to work. I still had to try to fight to make a way out of no way."

She told Adweek, "I remember being like, 'Oh, they think that this is a fun thing for me, and it's so insulting.' Those were some of the moments where I was like, 'Is this what it is in Hollywood? I think I might have to write for myself...'"

She did, indeed, opt to write roles for herself, co-creating and casting herself as the lead in the TV series Shrill.

He told GQ, "I think I had — I don’t know, $400 or $800 left in my bank account — and Euphoria was my last audition before I went home for a little while to make some money and recuperate."

While he was filming the pilot for Euphoria, a producer noticed his living situation and helped him get a hotel room.

She told Lucky magazine, "Twilight has given me something to skyrocket off of. But now that it's ending, there's so much work to be done. And if I don't do it, then Twilight's all I'm ever going to be known for, as great as it is."

She told Teen Vogue, "I said, 'This character is in her late to mid-20s, an Asian American, and I can't even audition for it? I've auditioned for Caucasian roles my entire career, but this specific role, you're not going to let me do it? You're going to fault me for having worked my whole life?' I was like, 'Where do I fit?'"

He told the Daily Mail, "It was terrible. My first love was acting, but puberty had other ideas. It was a forced retirement. I didn't give up acting. Acting gave me up."

She told Vulture, "[The episode was the] greatest thing I could’ve ever been part of, honestly. An incredible honor...I didn't think twice about it. It was a great opportunity. And then, the calls started coming in once I'd said yes, from a couple of advisers in Hollywood who were out gay men, [telling me] to not do it. A lot of people in my life really worried. And I was like, 'This is ridiculous.' This is where I grew up in a bubble and didn't realize we weren't there yet or something. The first time I became aware was, Oprah [who played Ellen's therapist] and I were having a snack, and suddenly, a flood of cops swarmed the set and the stage while we were rehearsing. They're like, 'There's been a bomb threat, we're sweeping the stage.' And they start literally rushing us off the stage."

She told More magazine, "It's not fun when you see things start to change. When you're in your teens or 20s, there is an abundance of ingenue parts, which are exciting to play."

She told PopSugar, "That was kind of a weird thing to wrestle with, because I never had to look at myself that way or stick myself in a bucket. So, I was more determined to be a leading lady to show that girls can look like me, and we can be leading ladies."

She told Daily Beast, "But a movie like Hustlers to me is such an affirmation that, like, I have a place in the film industry, and stories that I’m interested in are being told."

She told Untitled magazine, "They only saw me as Gabriella Montez, and I love that character, but there's so much more to me than just that. It was hard, and it was a struggle, but then again, life is always a struggle. Having a career will always be a struggle. You’ll always have to fight for what you want. Definitely crossing over and being able to tackle these grittier parts was a challenge, but I feel like I've done it! It's a whole new chapter!"

He told the NY Daily News, "I love acting, and this job lets me stay in the fight."