Michael Douglas Says Jack Nicholson Is Healthy but Out of the Public Eye
Michael Douglas told reporters that the 89-year-old actor is doing well despite having withdrawn from public appearances.
Michael Douglas said during a recent promotion for his memoir that Jack Nicholson, who is 89, remains in good health but has largely retreated from public life. "I would have liked to have acted with Jack," Douglas said, adding that Nicholson is no longer working and that he sometimes sees him walking around his home in slippers. > "He’s not working anymore. He’s well. He has disappeared. I know that. I still see him, but he is fine. He is up there by his house and walking around in his slippers. It happens. He deserves it. I understand. He is a few years older than me, but I understand." Douglas, 82, recalled that while he never shared a screen with Nicholson, he produced the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, in which Nicholson won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Nicholson has not appeared in a film since 2010’s How Do You Know and is rarely photographed, although his daughter Lorraine posted a birthday picture of him in April, showing him smiling beside Joni Mitchell.