Actor Michael Douglas doesn’t accept the “nepo baby” label proudly like some modern celebs do.
Douglas argues: “Who doesn’t try to help his son?”
The Basic Instinct actor attended the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, along with his stunning wife Catherine Zeta-Jones.
At the festival, the two-time Oscar winner shared how hard it was to make it in Hollywood under his father Kirk’s shadow, who was considered one of the industry’s best actors.
Douglas explained: “I don’t know a father in whatever business, be it a plumber or a contractor or a carpenter, who doesn’t try to help his son join him. I’m a nepo baby too, you know? So that’s the way it goes.”
The Disclosure star revealed how his father helped him out when he wanted to produce Milos Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which later won an Oscar for Best Picture.
Kirk had acquired the rights to make Broadway stage and film adaptations of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1962. The actor persuaded his father to let him produce the movie version.
“I sort of impulsively said, ‘Let me run with it,” he recalled, noting, “There’s a risk factor that also gives you the nerves when you’re starting a project. But then the nerves are just part of your career, part of your work.”
Michael Douglas became an accomplished actor with Academy Awards, five Golden Globes and a Primetime Emmy.
