But, once the 44-year-old actress appeared on The Late Show last night to promote the movie (opposite Dwayne Johnson), sponsor Stephen Colbert couldn't help but wonder why she had not starred in more blockbusters in the last decade. "Everybody understands you out of Party of Five, The Craft, four Scream films, Season 4 of House of Cards. Ten years back, you had the world on a string--cover of Rolling Stone, hosting Saturday Night Live. And then you left! You moved to London. Why not like usNeve Campbell?" Colbert asked. "Why did you leave America?"
"I just needed a moment," Campbell explained, laughing. "It was a very long moment. It was a good minute."
Born and raised in Ontario,'' Campbell said she had no idea how Hollywood worked before she got into show business. "I simply didn't understand American pop culture at all," she admitted. "And then suddenly I became an actor and unexpectedly these things were happening to me" After Campbell hosted Saturday Night Live at the height of her popularity in 1997, by way of instance,"I was not that comfortable with it. I was terrified! And then I found out that my musician was David Bowie, and my friend was like,'David Bowie? Oh, my God!' And I was like,'Who Is David Bowie?' I'd no idea. That experience was wasted on me,'cause I was clueless! Like, absolutely clueless!"
(Seeing Bowie, Campbell stated,"I acted as though I knew him quite well! Like,'You are amazing. You are simply fantastic.' Actually, my friend gave me a few of his CDs before, so that I listened to him.")
Though she continued to work over the years, averaging two movie roles each year from the 2000s, she started to become more discerning about her work around 2008. "In my twenties, it all hit so fast and so big that it was a little overwhelming--wonderful, of course, and I'm really thankful for this. But it got to some degree also in which the sorts of stuff that I was being supplied were not the kinds of things I need to do," she explained. "I was always being supplied horror films, because I had been known for horror films. Or poor comedies. I just was not interested in the scripts and that I was feeling a bit unhappy with the things which were coming to me. And I had been feeling somewhat bored with the whole thing. I thought,'I need a switch.' So, I moved to London."
Living abroad was everything the actress had hoped it'd be. "I was completely anonymous there. It's just quite different there. I did not get bothered! People would ask me what I did for a living. I'd say,'I behave,' and they would say,'Oh, OK,'" Campbell said. "It was lovely!"
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