Michael Douglas is retired: “I don’t want to die on a film set”
The Oscar -winning actor confirms that he has not been shooting since 2022, an assumed choice. Even if…
Michael Douglas Turn (almost) definitively the page of the chapter of his acting life.
Present on Saturday at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, in the Czech Republic, the Oscar -winning actor (for Wall Street) confirmed that he will voluntarily put an end to his acting career in 2022 – and not consider returning.
“I have not worked since 2022, voluntarily, because I realized that I had to stop. I worked hard for almost 60 years, and I did not want to be one of those people who die on a set.”
At 80, the one we saw for the last time in the cinema in Ant-man and the wasp: Quantumania In 2023, said he had “No real intention to come back“. Before tempering with humor: “I don’t want to make you say that I am officially retired, because if an exceptional project comes, I could come back. But if not, I am very happy to just look at my wife working.”
It must be said that Michael Douglas Win out of a long fight against throat cancer in the 2010s: “Stade 4 cancer is not a vacation, but there is not really an alternative. I followed the protocol, with chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and I was lucky … An operation could not help me speak and would have removed part of the jaw – difficult to manage when you are an actor. “
If he has not been running for almost three, his last role has not yet arrived up to us: he filmed in 2022 Looking Through Wateran independent drama still without a date of release in which he shares the poster with his son, Cameron Douglas. The film recounts the attempt to reconcile a father and a son around a fishing competition. It will be obviously his last role.
For the moment, the last appearance of Michael Douglas On the screen dates back to his role as Benjamin Franklin in the mini-series Franklin On Apple TV+, which he had shot in 2022 and which was released in the spring of 2024.
Now he looks at his wife Catherine Zeta-Jonesyounger (she is 55 years old) still “Very busy” on the front of the stage. He laughs: “In the spirit of maintaining a good marriage, I am happy to play the role of the one who remains at home now … “
