Another day, another Hollywood star declaring they’ve had enough of America.
This time it’s House of Cards actress Robin Wright, who has fled the United States for Britain and now gushes to the Times of London about how much better life is across the pond. At 59, Wright says it’s “liberating” to abandon America, which she dismissed as a “shit show.”
Her critiques sound straight out of a Malibu cocktail party. According to Wright, America is nothing but people trapped in traffic, panicked on phone calls, eating sandwiches while racing through a rat race of “rush, competition and speed.”
In her telling, the whole country is a carbon copy of Los Angeles — a caricatured nightmare of McMansions and materialism. “Everyone’s building a huge house, and I’m just done with all that,” she sighed, celebrating her new life of “quiet” in the U.K.
The irony here is almost too rich. Wright says she has found “freedom” in Britain, a country where thousands are arrested every year for daring to post political opinions online. In 2023 alone, more than 12,000 Britons were prosecuted for speech crimes — the kind of censorship that would ignite First Amendment lawsuits in America.
And while Wright praises British “kindness,” the U.K. is still reeling from one of the most shameful scandals in modern Western history: decades of Pakistani grooming gangs preying on tens of thousands of young girls, with authorities paralyzed by fear of being labeled “racist.” That, apparently, is the enlightened “freedom” Wright now celebrates.
It’s also not Wright’s first time defending the indefensible. Back in 2018, when her co-star Kevin Spacey faced multiple allegations of sexual assault, Wright brushed it off with a shrug. “Why does our private life have to be public?” she asked, calling the revelations “invasive.” Positive, negative, or neutral, she said, it should be “nobody’s business.”
Wright joins a predictable roster of Hollywood elites who have given up on the U.S. rather than grapple with its complexities — Rosie O’Donnell, Ellen DeGeneres, Ryan Gosling, Lena Dunham, and others who imagine London townhouses and European cafes are a moral upgrade from their California compounds.
But here’s the reality: Wright didn’t escape America’s “competition and speed.” She escaped her own Hollywood bubble, and instead of recognizing that America is far larger and richer than the circles she inhabited, she caricatured the whole country on her way out the door. She traded the First Amendment for Britain’s speech police, and she calls it “liberation.”
