Alice thought/thinks she is some type of acting guru directing his career. But she didn’t have the credentials for that. He was the one with the promising career, she was an also ran. Berating him for not getting the roles that would propel them into the Big Time, but despite that he kept on acting and getting roles that he might not have wanted to do, but it was work. It was more than she had or will ever have. She suppressed him but twisted it so it looked like he was just a failure. I think the penny dropped for him a few years ago. She worked a number on his confidence and he was too nice a guy to tell her advice was not credible because she had not been a successful actress herself. I hope that after this has been done with he goes on working and making a success at that part of his life.
Alice deserves credit for pushing Ioan to change agents after a stalled career. He has stated it. I believe it. That's when he said in an interview he began getting television shows. Ringer was on a cable channel, and 22 episodes were filmed the first season.. Forever was on a major network channel, ABC, with also 22 episodes a season I'm not going to blame Alice for his career hitting a serious downturn at one point. In fact, sometimes it's just luck added with talent. If Ringer or Forever had taken off, he would have been doing fantastic. Matthew Rhys was not the lead, as it was an ensemble cast, but he ended up on Brothers & Sisters on a major network channel. It was a hit TV show and ran for five seasons. Great luck. I didn't even know who he was before that. I thought he was American. LOL
Now we cut to years later and that transcript in June of 2020, I believe it was. It's hard to decipher her drunken ranting, but it's clear she's berating him for being a loser in front of the children. He had done three seasons of Harrow and two seasons of Liar during those last years. He was providing for his family at a cost, being away for long periods. She carries on now online about how he was away all the time, poor Alice, yet that transcript of the audio shows something else. It's COVID. 2020. It was the worst time for the industry as far as planning any projects in the future to be filmed, because it was unknown how long the pandemic would last. He doesn't have anything lined up after he goes back and finishes Harrow in another month. The industry was coming to a grinding halt. It sounds like she's furious over some shit offer he had. What is she doing? She's definitely not talking about how she can't wait for him to go back and finish the last bit of Harrow and be back home permanently from Australia. She's effing screaming at him that he doesn't have "it," that his career is over. She's in a drunken rant and mad that he doesn't have another job lined up. His hair is an issue. WTF? She has all the answers, this drunken shrew, demeaning him in front of the kids, scaring them. All she's looking at him as is her bank. Get back out there, go wherever, and bring home that money. They weren't flush with cash obviously, and she wanted to continue on exactly as is, not have to tighten their belts, so to speak, until he got another project. What a supportive wife who missed her husband all these years because he was filming far away. LOL
She had become worse and worse as the years went on. Whatever good parts of Alice there used to be that offset the ugly parts of her were few and far between in the last years of their marriage. What he was left with was an abusive, lazy, alcoholic, pill-popping, hypochrondiac wife, who knows everything, and he's nothing but a loser according to her.
