He may need stated “Greed is sweet” on display screen as soon as, however Michael Douglas isn’t feeling grasping about performing roles anymore. Whereas presenting a brand new print of his Oscar-winning traditional One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest on the Karlovy Fluctuate Movie Pageant on Saturday, July fifth, the esteemed actor and producer stated that his absence from the display screen in recent times has not been unintentional: “I’ve not labored since 2022 purposefully as a result of I noticed I needed to cease.”
As Selection stories, Douglas famous that he “had been working fairly exhausting for nearly 60 years, and I didn’t need to be a type of individuals who dropped lifeless on the set. I’ve no actual intentions of going again.”
Douglas’s final main function in a film was the 2023 Marvel journey Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania; he additionally reprised the function of Hank Pym within the animated MCU collection What If…?, and final 12 months starred as Benjamin Franklin within the Apple TV+ collection Franklin. He additionally has the impartial characteristic Trying By means of Water set to come back out in 2025, through which he stars alongside his son Cameron.
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Whereas Douglas may need stopped working — he as an alternative says he’s comfortable to “play the spouse” in his marriage to Catherine Zeta-Jones — don’t name it a retirement. “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, no.”
One one that may be comfortable about Douglas taking a break: Actor Michael Keaton. The Batman star’s actual identify is Michael Douglas — and he lately stated he desires it again.