Michael Douglas reflects on retirement: no plans to act again
Michael Douglas Could be done with acting after almost 60 years in Hollywood.
The Oscar winner, 80, said that he has “no real intentions” to play in another project – unless of course there is a script that really appeals to him.
“I have not deliberately worked since 2022 because I realized that I had to stop,” said Douglas on a Sunday July 6, the press conference during the Karlovy varies from the international film festival in the Czech Republic, per Variety.
“I had worked quite hard for almost 60 years and I didn’t want to be any of those people who died on the set. I have no real intentions to go back. I say I am not retired, because if there were something special, I would go back, but otherwise,” he added.
The Wall street Star said he is satisfied with his career and gave a sweet shout to his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Douglas noted that there is “a small independent film” that he tries to get a good script. ” However, “in the spirit of maintaining a good marriage,” he is “happy to play the woman” for the Chicago Star in the future.
Douglas and Zeta-Jones, 55, married in 2000 and share two children: Son Dylan24 and daughter Carys22. (Douglas is also daddy Cameron46, which he shares with ex-wife DIANDRA LUKER.)
Michael, the son of the legendary Kirk Douglas and actress Diana Dillfollowed in the footsteps of his famous parents by acting in the late sixties. His first breakout roll was the CBS television game The experiment.
Catherine Zeta-Jones can portray Morticia Addams on Wednesday, but for her family with husband Michael Douglas, she is just a mother (and “Zeze” for her step-small children). The Chicago star shares son Dylan, born in 2000, and daughter Carys, born in 2003, to Douglas, Die Zeta-Jones married the same year that the couple welcomed their son. (De Kominsky method […]
In recent decades, the actor has made a name for himself with the main roles in Wall street” Base instinct” Deadly attraction And more. His role as Gordon Gekko in Wall street Delivered him a best actor Oscar in 1988. He also won the Oscar for Best Picture for producing 1975s People flew over the nest of the cuckoo.
In recent years, Douglas has earned further praise for his leading roles like Liberace in Behind the candelabraNetflix comedy The Kominsky method and Marvel Studios’ Anti-man Movies. His last roles on the screen were 2023 blockbuster Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and the 2024 Apple TV+ mini series FranklinIn which he played Benjamin Franklin.
During the press conference, Douglas also thought about his diagnosis of oral cancer in 2010, including why he had no operation.
“Stage 4 cancer is not a vacation, but there are not many choices, right?” he said. “I went with the program, with chemo and radiation, and was lucky. The operation would have led it to not talk and remove part of my jaw and that would have been restrictive as an actor.”
