Spartacus star Kirk Douglas, who died in 2020 at age 103, continued appearing into his 90s, and his son Michael Douglas would possibly simply do the identical, regardless of the latter’s discuss of leaving his display screen profession behind.
In a brand new interview with The Instances, Catherine Zeta-Jones mentioned her husband of a quarter-century might find yourself appearing once more.
“Michael has undoubtedly earned the prospect to decelerate,” she mentioned. “However I by no means say by no means. He’s his father’s son and likes to work — let’s simply say, ‘retirement’ is a versatile idea.”
To this point in his profession, the youthful Douglas has received two Academy Awards (one for producing One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and one for his main function in Wall Avenue), 4 Golden Globes (one Cecil B. DeMille Award, plus trophies for his performances in Wall Avenue, Behind the Candelabra, and The Kominsky Technique), and one Emmy Award (for Behind the Candelabra).
Douglas can be identified for his roles within the movies Romancing the Stone, Deadly Attraction, Primary Intuition, Site visitors, and Surprise Boys, and for enjoying Hank Pym within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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The 80-year-old did say on the Karlovy Range Worldwide Movie Pageant final month that he’s nearly performed appearing.
“I’ve not labored since 2022, purposely, as a result of I noticed I needed to cease,” he instructed the press on the occasion, per The Hollywood Reporter. “I’ve been working … for nearly 60 years, and I didn’t wish to be a type of individuals who dropped useless on set. … I’ve no actual intention of going again. I say I’m not retired, as a result of [if] one thing particular got here up, I’d return. However in any other case, I’m fairly pleased to observe my spouse work.”
Douglas does have at the least one movie challenge nonetheless within the pipeline — the drama movie Wanting By means of Water, which additionally options his son Cameron Douglas and is due for theatrical launch on Friday, September 5 — if no more. “I had one little unbiased film that I’m attempting to get a great script out of, however that’s about it,” he mentioned on the movie competition final month.
As for Zeta-Jones, she’s nonetheless laborious at work. She stars within the TV collection Wednesday, the second season of which simply began streaming on Netflix, and he or she’s set to star within the Prime Video thriller collection Kill Jackie and to reunite with Wednesday star Jenna Ortega within the upcoming thriller movie The Gallerist.