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Michael Douglas provided a rare update on Jack Nicholson, who has retreated from the public eye in recent years.
While appearing at an event in Swansea where he discussed his explosive new memoir, Douglas was asked about his relationship with Nicholson, who starred in the Douglas-produced classic. We flew over a cuckoo’s nest in 1975.
“I would have loved to play with Jack,” Douglas said. “He doesn’t work anymore. He’s fine. He’s missing. I know that.”
Douglas continued: “I still see him, but he’s fine. He’s up there by his house and walking around in his slippers. It happens. He deserves it. I understand. He’s a few years older than me, but I understand.”
Nicholson, 89, has never officially announced his retirement, but he has not acted since the 2010s. how do you knowand has rarely been photographed since then either.
In April, Nicholson’s daughter Lorraine shared a rare photo of the Hollywood titan. Nicholson could be seen smiling as he spent the day with family and friends, including singer Joni Mitchell.
One person commented on Lorraine’s Instagram post with an effusive remark about Nicholson’s brief return to the spotlight.
“I appreciate the family sharing their Jack with all of us,” the commenter wrote. “There is a world of fans who have been entertained and touched by his art and it’s really cool to see him hanging out with another awesome LA artist, Joni Mitchell. We cherish our great artists and wish them happy days!”
Lorraine previously spoke about her relationship with her father in a 2011 interview with Us every weekwhere she spoke about her role in her own acting career. “He’s my mentor,” she explained. “I’m going into the family business because we’re so close and he’s such an inspiration. I admire him so much.”
For The Independent Last year, film critic Geoffrey Macnab wrote of Jack’s “deserved (if unofficial) retirement.”
“There was a time when the actor was spotted everywhere: in nightclubs, on talk shows, at basketball games, at movie premieres. No more,” he wrote. “The actor performed a disappearing act… One of his friends, music producer Lou Adler, told the WTF podcast that Nicholson now prefers to spend his time “sitting under a tree and reading a book.”
In 2024, actress Carol Kane – who starred alongside Nicholson in 1971 Carnal knowledge and the years 1973 The last detail – said The Independent that they stay in touch.
“Not much, but we keep going,” she said. “I make sure to check on him and thank goodness he always answers my calls.” When asked if he was okay, Kane responded with a laugh: “Oh, he’s still Jack.”
A three-time Academy Award winner, Nicholson is one of the most famous and recognizable film stars in Hollywood history, including Five easy pieces (1970), Chinatown (1974), Batman (1989), Some good men (1992) and As good as it gets (1997).
Douglas, 82, won an Oscar for producing We flew over a cuckoo’s nest – which also earned Nicholson his first Best Actor Oscar – after acquiring the rights to Ken Kesey’s original novel from his father Kirk, who previously owned the rights.
In his memoirs A hell of a rideDouglas wrote about his marriage to Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, as well as his adventures with his Romance the stone co-star Kathleen Turner and her Basic instinct co-star Jeanne Tripplehorn.
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