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Michael Douglas provides an necessary replace on his good good friend Jack Nicholson. At an occasion in Swansea to advertise his new memoir, One Helluva Trip, he says he regrets by no means having acted alongside Nicholson; Douglas produced Nicholson’s Greatest Appearing win for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. “I’d have preferred to have acted with Jack,” Douglas mentioned, per The Unbiased. “He’s not working any extra. He’s nicely. He has disappeared. I do know that.” Nicholson has taken a break from the highlight, together with his final film popping out in 2010. Since then, he’s made restricted public appearances, in addition to the SNL 50 and the occasional Lakers sport. Fortunately, he nonetheless makes time to hang around with Douglas, even when it’s a little bit completely different. “I nonetheless see him, however he’s superb. He’s up there by his home and strolling round in his slippers,” Douglas mentioned of their friendship now. “It occurs. He deserves it. I perceive. He’s a couple of years older than me, however I perceive.”
Douglas has praised Nicholson’s efficiency as Randle McMurphy, telling The Guardian in 2017: “Jack inspired everybody to deliver their A-game.”
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