{"id":228410,"date":"2025-12-12T01:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/228410\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T01:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:39:12","slug":"james-l-brooks-on-him-acting-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/228410\/","title":{"rendered":"James L. Brooks on Him Acting Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jack_nicholson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jack Nicholson<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>is as good as it gets.<\/p>\n<p>At least that\u2019s what writer-director <strong>James L. Brooks <\/strong>thinks after working with the actor for nearly three decades, even directing him in two of his three Oscar-winning performances in Terms of Endearment and As Good as It Gets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But while Jack hasn\u2019t appeared onscreen since James\u2019 2010 movie How Do You Know alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/reese_witherspoon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Reese Witherspoon<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/paul_rudd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Paul Rudd<\/strong><\/a>, the director is \u201cvery much in contact\u201d with the 88-year-old\u2014and has a bold take about Jack\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll be working again,\u201d James told E! News in an exclusive interview on the red carpet at the Ella McCay world premiere in Los Angeles Dec. 9. \u201cI hope it&#8217;s with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Jack wasn\u2019t in James\u2019 new movie Ella McCay, starring <strong>Emma Mackey<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jamie_lee_curtis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jamie Lee Curtis<\/strong><\/a> and exclusively in theaters Dec. 12, it was in part due to the storyline, as James noted, \u201cThere&#8217;s no part in this film for anybody like Jack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Jack has been staying out of the public eye\u2014aside from some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1425861\/jack-nicholson-photo-with-kids-lorraine-nicholson-ray-nicholson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rare appearances<\/a> on his daughter <strong>Lorraine Nicholson<\/strong>\u2019s Instagram\u2014James has long been vocal about seeing the One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest actor back on the big screen again following his 15-year hiatus.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Working with Jack Nicholson is as good as it gets. At least that\u2019s what writer-director James L. Brooks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,327],"class_list":{"0":"post-228410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-movies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115704048093454562","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}