has announced he \u201chad to stop\u201d acting, saying he doesn\u2019t want to \u201cdrop dead on the set.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Legendary Career<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Douglas won his first Oscar in 1976 as producer of One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest<\/em> and later won another for Wall Street<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He became a star of thrillers like Fatal Attraction<\/em> and more recently appeared in Marvel\u2019s Ant-Man<\/em> franchise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speaking at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Douglas said: \u201cI have not worked since 2022, purposefully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m very happy with taking the time off\u2026 But I say I\u2019m not retired, because if something special came up, I\u2019d go back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He now enjoys watching his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, continue her career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reflecting on his stage IV cancer battle, he admitted, \u201cStage 4 cancer is not a holiday.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, Douglas is set to appear in one more film, Looking Through Water<\/em>, alongside his son Cameron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Michael Douglas Steps Back After nearly 60 years in Hollywood, Michael Douglas, 80, has announced he \u201chad to stop\u201d acting, saying he doesn\u2019t want to \u201cdrop dead on the set.\u201d A Legendary Career Douglas won his first Oscar in 1976 as producer of One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest and later won another for Wall Street. He became a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6264,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262\/revisions\/6264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Life Beyond Acting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nChallenges and Legacy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n