Michael Douglas has no “real intentions” to act again. Although, at the same time, he says he does not use the word “retired”: “If something special appears, I would return. If not, I am quite happy. I like to see how my wife works (actress Catherine Zeta-Jones).” The declarations of the 80 -year -old interpreter and winner of Dos Oscar, this weekend at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, in the Czech Republic, have turned the world around and have been collected by the main media specialized in information about the seventh art. “I have had a very busy career. Now, I have not worked since 2022, I bet, because I realized that I had to stop,” Douglas added. That year, the one that to date is his last role, by Benjamin Franklin in the series Franklin, released in 2024 on Apple TV.
The actor went to the Czech contest to commemorate the 50 years of the premiere of Someone flew over the cuckoo nest, of thousands form, that Douglas Coprodujo. “I have been working very intensely for almost 60 years and did not want to be one of those people who suddenly fall dead on the set,” added the interpreter. 15 years ago, the actor faced radio and chemotherapy sessions to deal with throat cancer. At the festival, he also addressed that treatment and declared himself “fortunate”, since he could avoid surgical intervention: “I would have meant not being able to speak and that they took part of the jaw, which would have been limiting as an actor.”
Douglas also took the opportunity to address the political situation in the US. A month ago, in a master class at the Taormina Festival, he already declared: “I am ashamed of my country and I apologize.” Now, in the Czech Republic, he defined himself worried and nervous and said that the US is “flirting with the autocracy.” “I hope that what we are fighting now serves as a reminder of the work so hard that the Czechs did to gain their freedom and independence. The policy now seems aimed at getting benefit. (…) people now enter politics to get money. We cultivate an ideal, an idealism, in the US, which no longer exists,” he said.