Uma Thurman Nearly Quit Acting Before Pulp Fiction

has revealed that she nearly quit acting for good before her breakout role in Pulp Fiction, after an 'icky' experience on a previous Hollywood set. 

The actress, who rose to fame in 1994 playing Mia Wallace in the hit alongside and , opened up about her early acting days while appearing on Running Wild with . 

Uma, 56, and Bear, 51, sat down for a chat in the middle of their journey across the wilderness in the most recent episode of his Tubi reality series. 

Quizzed about her early days in acting, Uma admitted that she turned to the screen after struggling with dyslexia - admitting she was 'not reading until eight or nine'. 

Having come from an 'academic family', the actress said that acting helped her to not 'feel shy' and stressed that her career started to give her 'hope'. 

However, she was quick to admit she nearly quit her career path ahead of signing up to play iconic character Mia in Pulp Fiction because of a former bad experience.

Speaking about her time on set, Uma revealed: 'It just seemed like this super cool, independent movie - and I loved [Quentin], he was fantastic. 

'I'd actually had a difficult work experience that I'd had before I made that movie that I'd shared with [Quentin], and I'd lost my way. I was thinking of quitting. 

'I'd had like a typical icky Hollywood experience, but once I did [Pulp Fiction] and saw what real film and cinema was, I was like, "Oh, I want to do this".'

Reflecting on her continued career, Uma continued: 'I kept expecting that the gig would be up, that I would be shuffled back. 

'I was always nervous, I've been nervous most of my life, I thought nervousness was my edge... but, I'm debunking it. I feel like I navigated it pretty well.' 

Uma went on to open up about a horror accident that saw her left with multiple broken bones when she was thrown from a horse in June 2016. 

Trekking across the wilderness with Bear, she opened up on the recovery from the accident, in which the horse got spooked and threw her from its back. 

The actress told Bear: 'I lost control of a horse that was too good for me. I broke my chassis: ribcage, a little bit of my back... breaking the pelvis is so painful. 

'[I recovered] slowly. I had to have a wheelchair, and then I had to have a walker, and then I had to walk again - in the long run, I turned it into a reset that has been a steady build from it.'

Back in 2018, Uma spoke out against Harvey Weinstein after hinting for months that she was one of the movie mogul's alleged victims in the 1990s. 

In an article in The New York Times, Uma described several incidents in which Weinstein forced himself on her in a London hotel room on one occasion and that he led her into a steam room in Paris in another incident but backed away when she asked him what he was doing.

She says the most aggressive encounter, which took place at London's Savoy Hotel some time between 1994 and 2002, felt like 'a bat to the head'.

Weinstein threatened legal action against the actress who he claims has 'embellished' the truth. 

Following on from her Pulp Fiction rise to fame, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, she reunited with Quentin for Kill Bill: Volume 1 and 2 - which saw her nominated for a BAFTA and two Golden Globes. 

She also starred in Batman & Robin, Percy Jackson & The Olympians, Les Misérables and My Super Ex-Girlfriend before making her debut on Broadway.  

Earlier this year, it was revealed that Uma will be back on screen in another martial arts-based action thriller, Pretty Lethal, as a vengeful former ballerina.

Despite finding lasting fame as a bloodthirsty assassin in 's 2003 movie, she doesn't 'particularly like' violence.

She said: 'Some people really like it; I don't like it. When I see artful movement, I can enjoy violence and action because I'm blown away by it the way I would be if I saw an extraordinary dance performance.'

Which may explain why the 'ballet-fu' fighting style of Pretty Lethal – mixing martial arts with dance – appealed to her.

Also starring , Lana Condor, and Iris Apatow, the plot follows a group of ballerinas as they try to escape from a remote inn after their bus breaks down. 

Uma, the icy proprietress, and her 'mobs' hunt them down in a tale rife with 'well-timed kicks in the face'.

Since the Kill Bill films, the actress has mainly stuck to romance or cult movies such as Bel Ami and Playing For Keeps.

Uma went on to say that she sees no point in being nervous about AI, adding: 'Our challenge is to be fluid and dexterous, open-minded and positive.'

Uma was reunited with her Kill Bill director Quentin in November when they attended the premiere of The Lost Chapter: Yuki's Revenge.

Since collaborating on Pulp Fiction and the original Kill Bill films, Quentin and his 'muse' Uma have had a rocky professional relationship, with things increasingly strained after a car stunt on set left her injured.