{"id":45755,"date":"2025-07-07T10:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/45755\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T10:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:40:08","slug":"michael-douglas-says-he-has-no-real-intentions-of-acting-again-i-had-to-stop-michael-douglas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/45755\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Douglas says he has \u2018no real intentions\u2019 of acting again: \u2018I had to stop\u2019 | Michael Douglas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two-time Oscar winner Michael Douglas<\/a> has revealed he may be finished with acting, saying he has \u201cno real intentions\u201d to return to the industry.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the Karlovy Vary international film festival in the Czech Republic<\/a> for the 50th anniversary of One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest \u2013 which Douglas co-produced \u2013 the 80-year-old actor and producer told a press conference that unless \u201csomething special came up\u201d for him, he would not act again.<\/p>\n

His last role was playing Benjamin Franklin in the Apple TV+ series Franklin<\/a>, which was filmed in 2022 and released in 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had a very busy career. Now, I have not worked since 2022, purposely, because I realised I had to stop,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d been working pretty hard for almost 60 years, and I did not want to be one of those people who dropped dead on the set,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very happy with taking the time off. I have no real intentions. But I say I\u2019m not retired, because if something special came up, I\u2019d go back. But otherwise, I\u2019m quite happy. I just like to watch my wife [actor Catherine Zeta-Jones] work.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that he was \u201ctrying to get a good script out\u201d of a \u2018\u201clittle independent movie\u201d, but joked: \u201cI\u2019m not pursuing work. My golf game is getting better.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2010 Douglas underwent chemotherapy and radiation for stage four throat cancer. At Karlovy Vary, he said he was \u201cfortunate\u201d to avoid surgery, which \u201cwould have meant not being able to talk and removing part of my jaw \u2026 that would have been limiting as an actor\u201d.<\/p>\n

Douglas also addressed the current state of US politics, saying that he felt his country is \u201cflirting with autocracy\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look at it generally as the fact of how precious democracy is, of how vulnerable it is and how it always has to be protected,\u201d he said. \u201cI hope that what we\u2019re struggling with right now is a reminder of all the hard work the Czechs did in gaining their freedom and independence. Politics now seem to be for profit. Money has entered democracy as a profit centre. People are going into politics now to make money. We maintained an ideal, an idealism in the US, which does not exist now.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, he added that he would \u201cnot to go into too much detail\u201d as \u201cthe news speaks for itself\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI myself am worried, I am nervous, and I think it\u2019s all of our responsibility to look out for ourselves,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time Oscar winner Michael Douglas has revealed he may be finished with acting, saying he has \u201cno real…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-45755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114811530471812297","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}