‘Jerry Maguire’ star’s nursing career gave her ‘perspective’ before tackling Hollywood

Before Bonnie Hunt appeared successful films similar "Jerry Maguire" and "The Green Mile," she had a overmuch antithetic career.

In a caller interrogation with The New York Post, Hunt said, "This concern tin marque you truthful self-obsessed, truthful insecure and uncover that you are pompous oregon a narcissist."

But her enactment arsenic an oncology caregiver astatine Northwestern Memorial Hospital successful her autochthonal Chicago has kept her grounded aft 5 decades successful Hollywood.

"Jerry Maguire" prima Bonnie Hunt worked arsenic an oncology caregiver earlier her vocation successful Hollywood, which she said gave her "perspective." (Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

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"The 1 acquisition patients ever springiness maine is perspective," she told the outlet. "They fto maine successful erstwhile they’re facing their ain mortality."

During her clip arsenic a nurse, Hunt founded an improv drama troupe, An Impulsive Thing, and past auditioned for and landed a relation successful her archetypal film, 1988’s "Rain Man," starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman.

She went connected to prima successful films similar "Beethoven," "Jumanji," and "Cheaper by the Dozen," arsenic good arsenic lending her dependable to the "Cars" bid and directing and co-writing the David Duchovony movie "Return to Me."

"The 1 acquisition patients ever springiness maine is perspective. They fto maine successful erstwhile they’re facing their ain mortality."

Hunt, with Renée Zellweger successful "Jerry Maguire." (TriStar/Getty Images)

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Hunt told the Post she purposefully sticks with much family-friendly fare arsenic a effect of her nursing experience.

"On purpose, I was precise selective," the 63-year-old said. "I wanted to bash things that were much timeless and could beryllium seen by full families. I truly did, that’s wherefore I went into amusement business."

Hunt said she's been "selective" successful the projects she chooses to absorption connected family-friendly stories, adding, "That's wherefore I went into amusement business." (Santiago Felipe/FilmMagic)

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She continued, "You tin ticker immoderate communicative unneurotic arsenic a household and flight your worries, your heartache, it’s medicinal successful a mode and that’s what drove me."

Hunt with the "Red One" cast, from near to right, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock, Kiernan Shipka, and J. K. Simmons. (Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Pictures )

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Hunt presently stars successful the Christmas enactment drama "Red One," with Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans, a mismatched duo tasked with redeeming Santa Claus (J.K. Simmons).