Michael Douglas Could be done with a game after almost 60 years in Hollywood.
The Oscars winner, 80, said that he had “no real intention” to play in another project – unless, of course, a script presents he really likes.
“I have not worked since 2022 deliberately because I realized that I had to stop,” said Douglas in a Sunday July 6, a press conference at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, by Variety.
“I have been working quite hard for almost 60 years, and I didn’t want to be one of those people who fell dead on the set. I have no reality to come back. I say that I am not retired because if something special came, I would go back, but if not, no, “he added.
THE Wall Street Star said he was happy with his career and made a sweet cry to his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Douglas noted that there was “an independent little film” which he “tries to release a good script”. However, “in the spirit of maintaining a good marriage”, he is “happy to play the woman” at the Chicago star in the future.
Douglas and Zeta-Jones, 55, were married in 2000 and share two children: son Dylan24 years old, and his daughter Tiles22 years old (Douglas is also daddy Cameron46 years old, which he shares with the ex-wife Diandra Hayes.)
Michael, the legendary son Kirk Douglas and actress Diana DillFollowed in the footsteps of his famous parents by launching himself in the late 1960s. His first escape role was the CBS television piece The experience.
Catherine Zeta-Jones can represent Morticia Addams on Wednesday, but to her family with her husband Michael Douglas, she is just mom (and “Zezze” to her beautiful children). The Chicago star shares the son Dylan, born in 2000, and his daughter Carys, born in 2003, with Douglas, which Zeta-Jones married the same year that the couple welcomed their son. (The Kominsky method […]
The actor has made a name for himself over the decades with star roles in Wall Street,, Basic instinct,, Fatal attraction And more. His role as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street He earned him a best actor Oscar in 1988. He also won the Oscar for the best film for 1975 We flew over the cuckoo nest.
In recent years, Douglas has been acclaimed more for his Liberace star roles Behind the candelabrasNetflix comedy The Kominsky method and Marvel Studios’ Ant movies. His latest roles on the screen were 2023 Blockbuster Ant-man and the wasp: Quantumania and the Apple TV + 2024 mini-series Franklinin which he played Benjamin Franklin.
During the press conference, Douglas also thought about his diagnosis of loop cancer in 2010, especially why he was not operated on.
“Stage 4 cancer is not a vacation, but there is not much choice, isn’t it?” He said. “I went with the program, involving chemo and radiation, and I was lucky. Surgery would have meant not being able to speak and withdraw part of my jaw and this would have been limited as an actor. ”
