Mick Jagger has explained why he stopped taking acting roles for nearly 20 years, after appearing in a dozen movies between the late ’60s and 2001.
He tells USA Today that it was due to a combination of “laziness and not getting a decent script.” He says he “would like to have done a lot more,” but film’s “a funny world… You get a lot of rubbish offered to you that you might do if that was the only job.” Jagger, of course, has plenty of “other things to do.”
Jagger finally found a script he liked in Burnt Orange Heresy, which premiered at
