2023-05-17 20:00:27
Slightly emaciated, the hair completely white, Michael Douglas has never looked so much like Kirk Douglas, his father. A comparison that has pursued him all his life and that he now assumes with elegance and serenity. Because the actor and producer, 78, has nothing left to prove.
Kirk Douglas, last Hollywood legend, is dead
Became a multi-millionaire thanks to the success of Flight over a cuckoo’s nestby Milos Forman (1975) which he produced at the age of just 28, winning an Oscar twenty years later for his role as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street of Oliver Stone, the son walked in the footsteps of the father while managing to impose his first name. ” With this Oscar, I stepped out of my father’s shadow “, he confessed during a conversation granted Wednesday, May 17 to the Cannes public.
A scent of nostalgia
It is however this filiation which was celebrated this year by an honorary Palme d’Or and with it a whole section of the history of American cinema and of a Hollywood with the scent of nostalgia. Michael Douglas is despite himself the incarnation. He picked out the landmarks: a father who was more than a star, an icon; a mentor Karl Malden who provided the basics of the game to the young actor starting out in the series The streets of San Francisco with whom he shared the poster; and a few talented directors including Oliver Stone or Steven Soderbergh who pushed him to his limits, especially in My Life with Liberace.
Michael Douglas humbly acknowledged all that he owed them and passionately shared a thousand anecdotes about his shootings and his acting partners. As if he was evoking a world now swallowed up by the reign of superheroes and the algorithm… After having overcame the addictions and cancer that nearly ended his career, he is now at peace with himself, devoting himself to the causes that have always driven him and regretting the deep divisions that divide his country today. Solid, like his father who died in 2020 at 103 years old.
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