His father died before seeing the success of Alfred Molina, 70, and he regretted it a lot. Alfred Molina shares some of the moments in his acting life that disappointed his father where he says ‘I disappointed my father’.
Alfred Molina’s father did not like his career much due to which he was very depressed. He became very emotional in an interview on YouTube on April 29 about this.
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When he spoke with Vanity Fair in this interview, he said how he depressed his father.
Molina explained, “When I was very young, my dad got me a job as a waiter in the restaurant where he was working. If I say so myself, I was a good waiter to the point where the management offered me the chance to do a two-week management training course.”
“I turned it down because I got an acting job. My father says, ‘This acting job, how much are they paying you?’ I said, ‘I’m getting union wage, so 15 pounds a week.’ ”
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His father couldn’t understand how he agreed to work for £15. He was then working in that restaurant for 35 pounds which was $44 in American dollars.
After knowing that he was acting, his father said, “He looked at me and he had the look on his face that you reserve for the mad and the lost.”
He adds, “I’m Alfred Molina. And this is the timeline of my career. The family legend goes that I was about nine years old when I said I want to be an actor. And I can’t imagine that at the age of nine I actually knew what the heck I was talking about. I had a teacher, Martin Corbett. He had been an actor.”
