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Michael Douglas is recounting what his close pal Jack Nicholson would give him a hard time about back in the day.
“[The character’s] hair has always been an important part of my acting,” the “China Syndrome” actor, 81, explained during a Q&A before a screening of his 1987 film “Wall Street” last month. “It’s just funny how that kind of thing helps.”
“Jack Nicholson always used to give me sh–t about hair acting. [He’d say], ‘What’s with his hair acting?’ I said, ‘You should talk,’” Douglas teased.
While the Oscar winner and “The Shining” star, 88, were never in a movie together, they did collaborate on the 1975 film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.“
Nicholson starred as Randle McMurphy while Douglas worked as a producer.
In recent years, Nicholson has kept a low profile, last appearing in the 2010 rom-com “How Do You Know.”
Meanwhile, Douglas has also stepped back from acting, revealing in July that he was happy to be out of the spotlight.
“I have not worked since 2022 purposefully because I realized I had to stop,” the “Fatal Attraction” actor said while at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic, per Variety, at the time. “I had 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.”
“I have no real intentions of going back,” Douglas continued. “I say I’m not retired because if something special came up, I’d go back, but otherwise, no.”
Douglas last acted as Benjamin Franklin in the 2024 miniseries “Franklin,” on Apple TV+.
The director, who tied the knot with Catherine Zeta-Jones in 2000, also opened up about how his throat cancer diagnosis impacted his acting career.
“Stage 4 cancer is not a holiday, but there aren’t many choices, are there?,” he elaborated. “I went with the program, involving chemo and radiation, and was fortunate. The surgery would have meant not being able to talk and removing part of my jaw and that would have been limiting as an actor.”
Douglas added that he has “one little independent movie” that he’s “trying to get a good script out of,” but “in the spirit of maintaining a good marriage” he’s “happy to play the wife.”
In May, Douglas told Deadline that he doesn’t miss being on camera.
“I’m enjoying my hiatus and enjoying my life,” he gushed. “It was overwhelming running the production company and acting at the same time.”
“If something good comes up that I really like. But I don’t feel a burning desire,” Douglas, who runs the independent production Further Films, noted. “I’m still producing. I still love bringing people together.”
Douglas also shut down speculation that he would entertain another Marvel movie after starring as Hank Pym in the “Ant-Man” trilogy and “Avengers: Endgame.”
“I don’t think so. I had the experience, and I was excited to do it,” Douglas stated. “I’d never done a green screen picture before.”
Zeta-Jones, 56, also confirmed last year she was stepping away from mainstream Hollywood to focus on indie projects.
“I want to turn up. I want to do some interesting work,” she expressed at the 2025 Red Sea Film Festival.
“It goes back to my theater thinking, because I don’t feel I have to prove anything to anybody,” Zeta-Jones added. “I don’t have to work hard for other people.”