Hollywood star Jack Nicholson will not return to acting as he continues to live a secluded life, his friend Michael Douglas has confirmed.
A three-time Oscar winner, the 89-year-old Nicholson is widely considered one of the greatest screen actors of the twentieth century, with acclaimed performances in films such as "Chinatown," "The Shining" and "Something's Gotta Give."
But now Douglas, with whom Nicholson collaborated in the 1975 film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," has claimed that the movie star has "disappeared" from public life and is no longer interested in acting.
This comes after director James L. Brooks, who wrote the screenplay for Nicholson's last film, the 2010 romantic comedy "How Do You Know," hinted last year that he was "sure we'll see him" acting again. But Douglas has now apparently shot down that suggestion.
“I would have loved to have acted with Jack,” Douglas, 82, said Monday night. “He’s not working anymore. He’s fine. He’s gone. I know that.”
Douglas, who was promoting his memoir in the hometown of his wife, Catherine Zeta Jones, added: "I still see her, but she's fine. She's up there by her house and she walks around in slippers."
Nicholson made his screen debut in the 1958 film, “The Cry Baby Killer,” before making a stellar appearance in the classic “Easy Rider” in 1969, with “Five Easy Pieces,” “The Witches of Eastwick,” “A Few Good Men,” “Batman and The Departed,” among his other films.
Nicholson has never officially retired, in 2013 he told Vanity Fair that he was less motivated to be “out there anymore.” The actor has been rarely seen in recent years and has only occasionally seen his beloved team, the Los Angeles Lakers – he has been a season ticket holder since 1970. ©LAPSI.al
