Tom Green has explained why he left Hollywood after 20 years.
He rose to fame as a comedian and filmmaker in the 1990s through his MTV series The Tom Green Show, followed by the 2001 film Freddy Got Fingered.
He also appeared in Charlie’s Angels alongside Drew Barrymore, who he was married to between 2001-2002. Their relationship briefly made Green a tabloid celebrity.
Now, he’s opened up about his decision to leave Hollywood behind. In 2021, he returned to his native Canada to live on a 150-acre farm in a remote area of Ontario after living in Los Angeles for two decades.
Speaking to The New York Times, Green said: “I’m not really a Hollywood guy. I started to feel like I wasn’t being true to my authentic self.”
His move is the subject of a new Amazon Prime film This Is the Tom Green Documentary, which sees him adapt to farm life and work with chickens, mules and other animals. “People are probably going to be surprised that I’m not, like, completely crazy,” Green said.
“There’s a sort of a wholesome heartwarming thing to this — that I have a close relationship with my family, that I love animals, that I enjoy doing a lot of things that a great many people in the world enjoy doing, like getting out into the woods,” he added.
The documentary is the first of multiple projects he’ll be bringing to Prime Video. He’ll also be releasing a new hour-long stand-up special titled I Got a Mule!, which will be followed a few days later by the four-part reality show Tom Green Country.
“If it’s 200 bucks of course I’ll pay it for him, just for the principle of the thing,” Green said.
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