{"id":40121,"date":"2026-02-22T22:33:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=40121"},"modified":"2026-02-22T22:33:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:33:53","slug":"michael-douglas-reveals-heartbreaking-exit-from-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=40121","title":{"rendered":"Michael Douglas reveals heartbreaking exit from acting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Douglas did recently say that he has intentionally stepped away from acting after nearly 60 years in the industry. Speaking at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, he explained that he chose to stop working because he didn\u2019t want to be \u201cone of those people who dropped dead on the set.\u201d However, he also made it clear that he is <strong>not officially retired<\/strong>. He said he would return if something \u201cspecial\u201d came along, but for now he is enjoying time off and focusing on his personal life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rest of the article aligns with publicly known facts: Douglas won an Oscar for producing <em>One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest<\/em>, later won another for <em>Wall Street<\/em>, appeared in Marvel\u2019s <em>Ant-Man<\/em> franchise, and previously battled stage IV throat cancer in 2010. So the core claims are accurate \u2014 but headlines suggesting he is permanently quitting Hollywood are slightly exaggerated. He is taking a purposeful break, not making a definitive retirement announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Douglas did recently say that he has intentionally stepped away from acting after nearly 60 years in the industry. Speaking at the Karlovy Vary International Film&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":40122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":350,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40123,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40121\/revisions\/40123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}