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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Michael Douglas

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

The son of a Hollywood icon, Michael Douglas made a name for himself in the 1980s with a string of hit movies, from Wall Street and Fatal Attraction to Romancing the Stone. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with the Oscar winner to talk about his successful career, including the final season of his award-winning Netflix series The Kominsky Method.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

0:06.4

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

0:09.5

And this week I'm proud to tell you I have Hollywood royalty in my presence.

0:14.6

He is Oscar winner Michael Douglas.

0:17.0

I won't bore you by walking through the entire expanse of his IMDB page, his illustrious

0:22.9

career.

0:24.0

You know the movies, you know Romance and the Stone, you know the China Syndrome, you

0:28.3

know Fatal Traction, you know Wall Street, you know Traffic, you know the American President,

0:33.6

the list goes on and on and on.

0:36.3

Very excited because Michael agreed to do our interview in person.

0:39.6

I'm happy to say we're getting back to a lot of that with everyone vaccinated.

0:44.2

And we got together near his home in Westchester County, New York, just north of New York City

0:49.2

where he lives with his wife, fellow Oscar winner Catherine Zita Jones.

0:53.4

They have two children and they decided they made the choice to live outside of Hollywood

0:58.2

outside the glare of the spotlight and really outside of New York City too.

1:02.6

You'll hear him talk about that a bit.

1:04.7

Great guy.

1:06.3

He was happy to sit and walk through his career talking about being the son of Kirk Douglas

1:10.6

and what that was like and escaping his father's shadow when he finally felt like he did that.

1:16.2

So much to talk about including the latest and final season of the Kaminsky method, which

1:22.5

you'll hear Michael say was a bit of a surprise to him.

1:25.0

Remember he had about 11 years ago announced he had tongue cancer, stage 4 tongue cancer.

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