Matthew Lillard Was Convinced He'd Never Win An Oscar If He Signed Up For 'DWTS'

There is a reason Matthew Lilliard she's been out of her dancing shoes for a long time Dancing with the stars.

The actor, 54, told Business Insider in a recent interview that where his film Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed suddenly at the box office in 2004, an opportunity arose to appear on a reality show.

“I was going to do it Dancing with the stars. And I was like, if I did Dancing with the starsI will never win an Academy Award,” Lillard said. “If I do Dancing with the StarsI will be famous and not a great actor, and I just wanted to be a great actor.”

Lillard, who played Shaggy in the game Scooby Doo movies, he thought the role put him on a solid path to greater fame.

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“I thought I was going to be No. 1 on the call sheet for the next 10 years of movies,” Lillard said. “And the truth was, the exact opposite happened.”

In the interview, Lillard recalled that at that time he wanted to achieve success in his career and faced difficult times.

“I was stuck in the parts I was getting, I was stuck in this campaign to become famous with quote-unquote,” he admitted. “I have been through good and bad places. I had no job and I don't think I will ever work again.”

Lillard has been open about the difficulties of working in the acting industry, talking to him about his thoughts. Us Weekly June 2022.

“I don't think many working-class actors talk about how hard it is to survive from one job to another. I have built my life in such a way that I can tolerate the tension and flow of this industry,” he said. Us. “But for me, it's really trying to find a series of roles or as I grow and develop into a certain type, obviously a part of a character. I think I've always been an actor, but as you get older, there aren't many leading actors in movies who are 50 years old. The Brian Cranstons of the world, those roles that you define yourself late in your career or late in your career are something that I think every actor hopes for – male or female.

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He continued: “You get these moments sometimes where you get to do something. A lot comes in and plays a small role here, or a small role there. … And those are good. Like, that's how you feed your family. But you're always looking for something to push you as a player. And when you read it on the page, you say, 'Oh, my God, I don't know if I can pull it off.' … As an actor, as a man, as a person, those are the moments you are proud of. So you just want to be proud of your work.”

Lillard also reflected on his earlier years in the acting industry and shared details about the insecurities that came with that.

“I look back on my whole life and these times when I was a good boy and I was like, I always felt insecure. I think at the end of the day, I always felt like I wasn't good enough in a lot of ways,” he admitted. “I just think there are a lot of actors out there, you know, there's a lot of fear in this industry. There is a deep fear that you are not good enough. You don't have enough skills. You are not sexy enough. And I don't think that fear is working for you.”