Patricia Arquette made the pretty smart move to stay in the business.
The actress, 57, revealed that she almost quit acting after starring in her first ever film at just 18 years old, “Pretty Smart.”
The comedy drama follows Zero (Arquette) as the head of a clique at a Greek private school.
Arquette said that “really crazy things happened” on that set, while on the Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation series last week.
Without divulging too much information, Arquette said they filmed the movie through lunch breaks and come dinner time, they served meat.
“I’m a vegetarian, but there wasn’t really a lot of vegetables because of where we were because of Chernobyl,” she explained. “So, they just would bring me, like, a Coke and potatoes. And then I opened it and there was meat, but it had fur on it.”
The “Medium” star also noted she had to style her own wardrobe and keep her own notes in her script since there wasn’t a supervisor to do it for her.
After shooting, Arquette felt that Hollywood wasn’t the place for her despite being from a family of actors.
She told her sisters Rosanna Arquette how she felt in hopes of some sound advice.
“She’s like, ‘Why do you say that?’ And I told her some of the crazier things that happened,” recounted Arquette. “She was like, ‘Honey, that’s not how movies are.’”
Arquette decided to continue working as an actress and has since starred in a slew of hit movies and shows.
She took home an Emmy award for her work in “Medium” in 2005 and again in 2019 for the series “The Act.”
In 2015, Arquette went on to win an Academy Award, Golden Globe and SAG Award for her role in “Boyhood.”
The star is currently nominated for two Emmys for her work on the Apple TV+ series “Severance.”
The thriller series just wrapped up its highly anticipated second season earlier this year. The show follows employees at a biotech company called Lumon.
Mark (Adam Scott), Helly (Britt Lower), Dylan (Zach Cherry) and Irving (John Turturro) are all “severed,” which means a chip in their brains separates their “home” selves from their “work” selves. Arquette plays Harmony Cobel, their secretive supervisor.
In January, Arquette and Scott, 52, dished on the show’s rising popularity.
“They always try to get me to tell them what’s happening during the season. But I’ve gotten really good at not telling people anything,” Arquette told The Post about her family and friends.
“I think I know what some of [her motivations] are for sure. Some things the audience doesn’t know, I do know,” she added about her character. “I enjoy her volatility and I enjoy her thought process, really, because it’s so foreign to me.”
Scott and Arquette both agreed that despite not spilling the beans, they are clued into the show’s ever-evolving mysteries.
“What’s up with the goats? And what is Lumon doing? Yeah, I think I know essentially the answers to those questions,” Scott concurred.
Meanwhile, earlier this month, Arquette assured fans they might not have to wait much longer for Season 3.
“I know people have been so patient and I thought, ‘Oh, they’re never going to wait as long as it took for Season 2,’” she told CNN. “But I don’t think it’ll take that long.”
“But you never know,” Arquette continued. “The first season we had Covid, [and] the second season we had a huge strike, so we don’t know what’s happening in this world.”
Season 2 premiered in January, almost three years after the thriller’s debut.
“I have not seen a script for Season 3, but I have been talking to the writers,” Arquette teased, adding that everyone on the show “is very quality control-conscious and they do care about it being really great.”
