Portia de Rossi announces she has quit acting
Portia de Rossi has announced that she has retired from acting.
While appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the Arrested Development star explained that she wanted to focus on something “challenging and different”.
“You aren’t a big fan of doing press and talk shows, so thank you for being here,” Ellen said.
“She really doesn’t. That’s why she actually quit acting. She decided you didn’t want to do anything more with acting and got off of Scandal.”
Portia revealed that she asked Shonda Rhimes to be written out of Scandal and told the creator of Arrested Development, Mitch Hurwitz, that she wouldn’t return for Season 5.
“He seemed understanding and totally got it and we had a great conversation and then he wrote me into five episodes,” she said.
“Don’t know how it happened but I am on Season 5.”
Now, Portia plans to work on her own art curation and publication company called General Public.
Portia said when she is out in public with Ellen, fans will always gravitate to the talk host.
“When I’m out with Ellen, fans come up to us and say, ‘Oh, my God, Ellen, you’re an angel.’
“And then they look at me and go, ‘And you’re horrible!’ It’s funny,” she said.
Portia and Ellen married in 2008 and the Aussie said that they are each other’s best friends.
“We’re just really good friends and we talk about everything, and we never ever, ever lie to each other, like, not even the tiniest lies,” she said.
“And she’s the only person I want to hang out with. Like, she is my best friend and I just want to be with her all the time.
“She’s just so awesome! Who wouldn’t want to be with Ellen all the time?” she said.