"I don't want to die on set." Michael Douglas retires from acting.

American star Michael Douglas has announced his intention to retire from acting after a prolific career spanning nearly six decades.

Michael Douglas will not return to acting. "I have no real intentions of returning to acting," Douglas said during his participation in the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic. "I have deliberately not worked since 2022 because I realized I had to stop." Douglas indicated his desire to enjoy his free time after long years of hard work, after spending a relaxing period with his daughter, Carys, on the Spanish island of Menorca.

“I don’t want to be one of those actors who suddenly dies on set,” added the two-time Oscar winner, expressing satisfaction with his decision to step away from the spotlight.

However, he added that he does not consider himself officially retired, as he might return to acting if he is offered an exceptional role worth the effort.

Douglas Saeed as the husband Regarding his current life, Douglas expressed his happiness at playing the role of a devoted husband to his wife, star Catherine Zeta-Jones, with whom he has been married for 25 years, jokingly saying: “I am happy now to play the role of a husband in the context of maintaining a successful marriage.”

Douglas is internationally known for his outstanding performance as greedy financier Gordon Gekko in the 1987 film "Wall Street," for which he won an Academy Award.

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New independent work Despite almost retiring from acting, Douglas revealed that he is currently working on a small independent film and is trying to develop a good script for it, stressing that there are no other projects in Hollywood that interest him at the moment.

His participation in the Czech Festival was to present the restored version of the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by the late Miloš Forman, in which Jack Nicholson played the lead role.