Lara Flynn Boyle says she never left Hollywood — and makes rare comment about ex Jack Nicholson

She never remaining. 

Lara Flynn Boyle, 54, opened up about her time in Hollywood and the rumors that she still left the sector in a exceptional interview with People today journal, released Tuesday. 

Though she’s been on a 4-year hiatus, she said, “I never wanted to bow out. Any second I was feeling down or sorry for myself, I created sure I did not complain. My mom made use of to sometimes provide me content about other actresses to display me I’m not the only 1 obtaining a uncooked deal.”

She also discovered that she’s experienced some #MeToo activities, but she declined to title names. 

“I’ve been in scenarios that have been not identified as for,” the “Twin Peaks” star revealed. 

“I’ve walked out of conferences and had repercussions for it. We all go as a result of it.”

Flynn Boyle rose to fame on “Twin Peaks,” before starring in well known movies like “Wayne’s World” and “Men in Black II.”

She’s been married to Texas actual estate developer Donald Ray Thomas, 58, due to the fact 2006. 

“I have a beautiful relationship,” she said. “We were being jointly that night,” she added, referring to very first assembly him at a get together, “And at any time because.”

But, ahead of her marriage, she experienced various substantial-profile associations, together with with her “Twin Peaks” co-star Kyle MacLachlan, “Saturday Night time Live” alum David Spade and Jack Nicholson, who is 33 years her senior. 

“I still left with a bang when it came to actors,” she mentioned, referring to Nicholson, 87. 

“Then I went, ‘Okay, I’m finished now.’”

The exes famously dated on and off for a long time starting up in 1999. In 2015, Spade claimed that Nicholson approached Boyle when she was however with the comedian.

“Nicholson requested Lara Flynn Boyle out in entrance of me, even though we have been all smoking cigarettes a doob somewhere,” he recalled to Details. When he did not soar to defend their romance to Nicholson, “she got mad simply because I didn’t adhere up for her.”

“I said, ‘I’ve been in this city lengthy adequate to know when I’m outranked. You’re either gonna go out with him or you are not.’”

Boyle and Nicholson referred to as it quits for very good in 2004.

She’d go on to marry Thomas and reside a quieter lifetime out of the highlight. For every People, she famous that her general public absence was due to the COVID pandemic and her preference to prioritize time with her spouse.

“Mother, Sofa,” premiering July 5, is her very first movie in 4 decades. The dim comedy follows a female (Ellen Burstyn) who goes household furniture shopping at a retailer and refuses to get up from a sofa. Boyle performs Linda, her daughter, while Ewan McGregor and Rhys Ifans (“House of the Dragon”) enjoy Linda’s brothers. 

Boyle dismissed the strategy that returning for “Mother, Couch” is a comeback. 

“You really don’t want an report to read through, ‘Boyle’s Next Chance’ or ‘Look Who’s Back again,’” she mentioned. “I’m proper below.”

The movie’s author-director, Niclas Larsson, mentioned that he grew up in Sweden reading through tabloids at his mother’s hair salon.

“The only form of literature I was exposed to amongst the age of 5 to maybe 10 was gossip journals,” he explained. “And Lara was on the go over a good deal.”

She included that whilst it is annoying for actresses of a particular age to discover roles, she doesn’t blame the industry for it. 

“The detail that will get my goat is when actresses chat about ageism in Hollywood. Ageism is human mother nature. It’s not Hollywood’s fault. It is all of our fault. Myself involved. I like on the lookout at really people on the digicam.”