Actress Nancy Olson admitted she made the decision to leave Hollywood behind after receiving an Oscar nomination for her role in “Sunset Boulevard.”
Receiving an Oscar nomination signaled the peak of her career, but Olson said she felt it was her cue to bow out of the spotlight during the Feb. 6 episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s “It Happened in Hollywood” podcast. The 96-year-old said her role as Betty Schaefer in the 1950 film garnered all the acclaim an actress could have desired but the movie’s very story of how Hollywood mistreats stars was enough to make her turn her back on acting after it revealed “the truth” about the industry.
“It was built on commodities to sell, and the commodities were the actors and the actresses, and they were made bigger than their reality,” she said.
“They were figures that were used to sell motion pictures. Therefore, they…
