What happened to Eric Bana?

Christel Payseng
2 min readApr 14, 2024

2000s — he appeared in Black Hawk Down, and Star Trek, and even played the Hulk. He was a huge crush of mine and even my mom’s. But somehow, he just disappeared. Until now, my favorite movie of his is Troy, where he played against Brad Pitt. I’ve watched this movie several times, and he was great as Hector.

During my online research, in Reddit forums, it doesn’t seem like anything negative happened to him. There wasn’t any bad news or anything, it’s just that he earned a huge amount of money when he was in his 30s, about 10 to 15 million USD, and he just didn’t need to make as much money anymore.

He got married and now, he is focused on motor racing competitions. They say Eric Bana is focused on car collecting, racing cars, and making documentaries instead of movies.

His dream was really to become a full motor mechanic, and acting was simply a hobby for him. This is the same thing that happened to child actor Frankie Muniz, they both just made enough money, so they didn’t need to do films anymore. He did admit that while he loved acting in movies, he was more into racing cars, so he had a passion that was more important to him, and that’s where he put his focus.

Nowadays, Eric Bana is more focused on working on his hobby and also helping homeless young people in Australia. Nowadays, he is focused on raising money and toys for out-of-school youth. So he chose a more peaceful life, and that’s the best thing to happen. Because it’s not always a good choice to stay in Hollywood.”

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Christel Payseng

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