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Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas
（1944.9.25 ~）
American film actor and producer
Michael Douglas's gaze was deep, as if he could talk, and as if he were greeting everyone.
The complex and obscure characters he has played are intertwined and vaguely intertwined on this face - Gordon Gerco, a morally hollow financial predator in "Wall Street", a middle-aged policeman caught in the vortex of desire in "Instinct", a cheater who triggers killing in "Fatal Temptation", a husband who "loves and kills" with his wife in "War of the Roses", a billionaire in "Psychological Games" who tries to treat psychological trauma through games...
Stills from Instinct
Stills from Wall Street
He said: "I'm very interested in people with flaws. Their dark side, their depraved humanity, are the reasons I want to play. ”
As if possessed by the role, the famous Hollywood film emperor himself also has a strong drama, whether it is career, family, marriage, son, casually pull out one is the absolute headline.
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"I'm not a born actor." Douglas said.
Michael Douglas, who grew up in a family of performing arts, is a veritable "star second generation".
His father, Kirk Douglas, was a Hollywood Golden Age superstar and Oscar lifetime achievement winner who appeared in hundreds of films, including Spartacus, The Glorious Road, and Van Gogh.
Kirk Douglas
Father and son
The identity of the "star second generation" is both an aura and a pressure.
Douglas said that he was shy and prone to stage fright, and his father's fame was like a heavy burden on him, which led to many years later, he found confidence and self in acting.
Tempered again and again, Douglas has successfully interpreted multiple complex roles.
These characters are often in a gray area, which is both love-hate and thought-provoking, and makes him one of the hottest and most influential male stars in Hollywood in the 90s.
Nihilistic, arrogant, confident and charming, Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor for a sleep at Gordon, the financial giant on Wall Street.
Only then did he succeed in escaping the shadow beneath his father's aura and becoming himself.
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Cameron Douglas
In 2009, Cameron Douglas, 31, was arrested in New York city and confessed to long-term drug abuse while conspiring to distribute drugs.
He is the only son of Michael Douglas and ex-wife Deandra Luke.
Surprisingly, at the time, many spontaneously wrote to the court requesting a light sentence, arguing that Cameron's parents were heavily responsible for his drug use.
Cameron revealed the story of his parents in his memoir "The Long Distance House."
Michael Douglas and ex-wife Deandra Luke
In 1977, Douglas, 32, met 19-year-old Deandra and married eight weeks later, but their honeymoon period didn't last long.
In the mid-'80s, when it became known that Glass was out picking flowers and weeds, Deandra threatened to end the marriage.
In the early '90s, due to infidelity being discovered again by his wife, Douglas went to a clinic for drug and alcohol treatment.
Eventually, in 1995, when private detectives hired by Deandra captured a photo of Douglas returning to the hotel with another woman, the two separated.
In 2000, the two divorced.
The original family of three
There are more details about the story of Douglas and Deandra's feud.
Some say that Deandra admired perfection, and she kept decorating her mansion so that it was always in some form of renovation.
Douglas complained that he didn't feel at home in his house.
But all the clues suggest that the father's deception of his mother, the long-standing unstable family atmosphere, caused Cameron's inner trepidation, which ran through almost his entire childhood and adolescence.
After his parents divorced, Cameron and Douglas had a strained relationship.
He wrote, "When Dad looked at me, I didn't see love lately; I saw attention, sadness, and frustration. ”
In this way, Cameron's life gradually became unmanageable, and drugs gradually became the "way out of loneliness".
After Cameron's arrest, Michael Douglas was interviewed in the media and accepted criticism for his failure to fulfill his father's duties.
He said:
"During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life."
"I knew very well that I had made a mistake and missed the formative years of my eldest son, Cameron."
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Douglas remarried Catherine Zeta Jones
A family of four
After a broken marriage and the lessons of a drugged son, when Douglas entered a second marriage with Catherine Zeta Jones and had two children, he realized that family was his top priority.
Douglas spends more time with his children, including exercising with them.
Douglas's daughter, Karis, was a horseback riding enthusiast, so he watched her practice her horsemanship and spend the holidays with her.
His son Dylan loves to surf, so he finds the best place to surf with his son.
The beautiful wife could not stop Douglas from cheating
However, even though the first marriage was rocked by infidelity, Douglas faced a sex scandal again during her second marriage.
In August 2010, Michael Douglas was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer and was nearing advanced stages. He opened up his cancer to the British newspaper The Guardian. He said laryngeal cancer was caused by oral sex with sexually transmitted diseases.
Fortunately, Catherine Zeta Jones accompanied Michael Douglas through the fight against cancer. In January 2011, Douglas said that after intensive treatment, his throat cancer had disappeared.
In 2013, the marriage of the two was in an uproar and they were separated for a time. Fortunately, after a period of calm and processing, this marriage facing brokenness took a turn for the better.
Douglas said, "We want to manage our relationship well and continue to cherish this hard-won relationship." ”
Grow old slowly together
In November 2020, Douglas celebrated their wedding anniversary with Catherine Zeta Jones.
It turned out that it had been 20 years since the two had a lavish wedding at the Plaza Hotel in New York City in November 2000.
It is not easy to accompany each other for 20 years.
Douglas used his experience to warn the world, "Love is an extraordinary feeling, it comes from the soul deep inside you, but it must be nurtured." The thing I've learned about getting old is that you can't take love for granted. ”
At a young age, Douglas was self-invested, career-obsessed, and natural, and as he grew older, he began to appreciate relationships, learn more about the fragility of life, and have more understanding and tolerance for his family.
He spends more time with his family and children. Because he understands that his family needs more care and support.
He overcomes his own flaws and repairs a broken marriage. Because he understands that love needs to be managed and tolerated.