Jeffrey Dean Morgan nearly quit acting after miserable ‘Star Trek’ experience: ‘I hated it so much’
Jeffrey Dean Morgan's miserable experience playing an alien on "Star Trek: Enterprise" nearly convinced him to quit acting for good.Long before his breakout roles on "Supernatural" and "Grey's Anatomy," Morgan appeared as a Xindi alien named Damron on the sci-fi series — a job that required extensive prosthetics and left the actor struggling with claustrophobia."I hated it so much," Morgan recalled during an appearance on Josh Horowitz's "Happy Sad Confused" podcast. I've got to do something else.'"WILLIAM SHATNER SAYS HE'S 'TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS' AT 95: 'THE LEAST OF ALL I WANT DO IS DIE'Morgan said he sometimes spent 14 hours a day in the prosthetics and had difficulty eating while wearing them."I remember I was so claustrophobic," he said.
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan's miserable experience playing an alien on "Star Trek: Enterprise" nearly convinced him to quit acting for good.Long before his breakout roles on "Supernatural" and "Grey's Anatomy," Morgan appeared as a Xindi alien named Damron on the sci-fi series — a job that required extensive prosthetics and left the actor struggling with claustrophobia."I hated it so much," Morgan recalled during an appearance on Josh Horowitz's "Happy Sad Confused" podcast. I've got to do something else.'"WILLIAM SHATNER SAYS HE'S 'TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS' AT 95: 'THE LEAST OF ALL I WANT DO IS DIE'Morgan said he sometimes spent 14 hours a day in the prosthetics and had difficulty eating while wearing them."I remember I was so claustrophobic," he said. "It just was an experience that I want to forget, and I still wake up sweating about it."CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTERThe experience came during an already tricky period in Morgan's career.By his mid-30s, he had spent years bouncing between guest appearances, pilots and smaller movies while taking side jobs to pay his bills."I was always, always side hustling," Morgan said, recalling that he would build fences and take other jobs that "usually involved hammers."NICKI MINAJ, ANNA NICOLE SMITH AND MORE STARS WHO GOT THEIR START WAITING TABLES AT RED LOBSTERWalking away from Hollywood, however, presented its own problem."I was like, done, but at the same time I was like, 'What am I going to do?'" Morgan said. "I don't know anything else."LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING?
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