Netflix star divides opinion after explaining why he decided to quit acting
The star of a hit Netflix show has divided the crowd after explaining why he stepped away from acting.
Dylan Minnette caught his big break on the 2017 Netflix series, 13 Reasons Why and hasn't looked back since.
The series follows high school student Clay Jensen (Minnette) who is left to pick up the pieces following the tragic death of Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford).
Minnette has featured in some big TV series, such as Lost, Scandal, Grey's Anatomy, Prison Break, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., to name a few.
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Amid his on-screen success, the 27-year-old also happens to be a musician and guitarist for his alternative rock band Wallows.
Clearly a man of many talents, it seems Minnette has decided to narrow-down on what he's really looking for from his work.
Speaking on the Zach Sang Show, the actor opened up about how his 'job' started to feel like a 'job'.
“I was very fortunate to find success in it… but it also started to feel like a bit of a job," he said.
"I feel like Wallows and music is this passion we’ve always had as a group to really take all the way.
"I was like, ‘I feel like I’m in a position now where I can just do that for a while and get this the farthest it can be.
"And the only way that’s gonna happen is if I put my 100 percent time and energy into it’."
Minnette added: "I’m just following what feels natural and inspiring at the time, and I’m very obviously incredibly privileged and lucky to be in a position where it’s like, ‘This starts to feel like a job, so I’m gonna do this now and this will be my job.’
"It’s insane but it’s working out that way and I’m just following what feels inspiring."
Despite acknowledging how lucky he is to be in this position, some viewers did not understand where he was coming from.
"So he stopped doing his job because it was feeling like a job?" one person wrote.
"I hate it when my job starts feeling like a job," a second, sarcastic comment read.
"I get what he’s trying to say… but this feels a little tone deaf considering how lucky he is do to what he does for a living while others work 9-5’s to make a living," a third thought.
Meanwhile, others tried to explain what Minnette was getting at.
One said: "It's called burn out. People who enjoy what they do as a job go through it all the time.
"It's not that a job feels like a job. It's that a job, which you enjoy the majority of the time. Is no longer enjoyable any of the time."
Someone else added: "He meant his passion started feel less like a passion and more like a job YES ITS A JOB but it stared as a passion something he did because he loved it and then it became less that he loved it and something more that he just did."
Anish Vij