Stuart Townsend For Corduroy Magazine

He’s spent the better part of his life in front of camera, as both a film and television star and an unwilling target of the paparazzi. Though he’s best known for dating Charlize Theron, Stuart Townsend is stepping out and making his own case for the spotlight. First step: coming clean to Corduroy about past relationships and his new struggles in the industry.

“I got into acting for a girl. I was going out with a girl who was doing drama school. And I didn’t even know you could do drama school. But I was watching four or five movies every day and she was like “you could learn acting” and I thought maybe I could get into films and impress her. I ended up joining the same acting school as her. We broke up a short while later but I’ve been doing movies ever since.”

The actor also admitted that he doesn’t do films he isn’t impressed by leaving him with about three scripts a year to choose from. The only problem is everyone else is vying for those roles as well.

“The general public has this idea that you get to choose and choose and they’re always like ‘You chose that?’ And you’re like ‘No, that was it. That’s why I’m in it.’ There are probably only about three scripts a year that I really like. And everybody else is ready those scripts too. It got to a point where I was fed up with acting. I was fed up with being in films that I didn’t really give a sh$t about. ”

I will always love Stuart for his portrayal of Lestat in Queen of the Damned. I read Anne Rice’s entire series and LOVED his interpretation of the character.