John Cusack has unleashed an attack on the 'whorehouse' of Hollywood, warning: 'it sucks most of the time'.
The 48-year-old actor has enjoyed a 25-year career in blockbuster movies and concedes that he lives 'a blessed life'.
But
while promoting his latest film Maps To The Stars - a damning account
of celebrity culture in LA - Cusack revealed his contempt for the
'misogynistic' and 'ageist' cinema capital.
'It just seems to be ripe with all these frontier crazies,' he tells the Guardian, adding: 'you can't make it up'.
When
he was starting out at 16 in 1989, Cusack was mentored and protected by
industry heavyweights such as Al Pacino as he went on to star in films
such as High Fidelity and Grosse Point Blank.
Now, he
warns young stars, you cannot survive without finding a safe haven to
shy away from the limelight because 'the culture just eats young actors
up and spits them out'.
His words come days before Maps To The Stars hits US cinemas.
The
satirical drama, directed by David Cronenberg, gives a scathing account
of celebrity culture as it follows an archetypal Hollywood dynasty -
two former child stars, a psychotherapist father, and a pushy momager.
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