Forest Whitaker, 63, could be a bit of a work executioner.
“I have only had a dozen vacation in my life,” said the actor with high alive in an interview published on Monday. “Three times in Capri. Once in India. Once in Cancún. That’s almost everything.”
His tropical getaway in Cancún, which he went through the beach, was one of the most memorable. “It’s the greatest luxury I can imagine,” said Whitaker.
Apart from these international trips, all of his other holidays were trips en route from California to Texas to visit his family.
It is not that he does not want to rest; He is simply too consumed by his work, he said.
Whitaker won an Oscars, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA for his performance as IDI Amin, the former President of Uganda, in 2006, “The Last King of Scotland” in 2006.
“I was in the shape of a monk, similar to what I sometimes work – so obsessed and possessed by what I do that the nourishing part of the forest does not often happen,” said Whitaker.
With hindsight, Whitaker says that he would change this and tell his young person to kiss the moment and “look for more opportunities to find joy in life”.
“Do not let work exhaust your joy,” said Whitaker that he would advise his young me.
While Whitaker’s job acts, his work ethics reflects that of many major CEOs in technology.
In a blog article published for the first time in 2004 and republished in 2011, Mark Cuban wrote that he “had spent seven years without vacation” during the creation of his first company.
In 2018, Elon Musk told the New York Times that he had not taken more than a week off for 2001.
In an interview in 2024 with Nicolai Tangen, the CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, the CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, said that he was working every day of the week and every holiday.
A Whitaker representative did not immediately respond to a request for comments sent by Business Insider.
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