After spending a few years working in publishing, Anna Chlumsky finally admitted that she wasn't finished with acting. Apparently, her inspiration came from a very unexpected place. On her way to work, a fortune teller approached her in the street. "She's like, 'Are you the girl from 'My Girl?”" Chlumsky told Elle. "I'm like, God dammit. Today? And then she's, 'Wait. You're not done. You want to keep doing it.'" Chlumsky ended up having a palm reading and after ten minutes, she was convinced it was time to re-enter the industry. As she told The Guardian, her husband was completely supportive. As she told People, she gave herself one year to make acting work.
So, she took a course at a New York drama school. At first, trying to rebuild her career was tough. "It was [difficult] in the sense that it was a complete shift — going from a kid to an adult is a big difference," she confessed to Interview Magazine. Luckily, training as an adult made a big difference. "I also was so completely enamored with the profession once I got back into it that, even when I don't know how I'm going to [pay my rent], I still would rather be doing this, and have it be this scary, than doing anything else," she added. "Emotionally, it was taxing, but it still always felt right and always felt good."
