At 98, Dick Van Dyke Is Still Going Strong And Raring To Take A One-Man Show On The Road: “I Think It’d Be Fun”
deadline.comLegend. Icon. Hero. Dick Van Dyke is unsure how to feel about these terms. “It’s a little hard for me to get my brain around that,” he says, speaking over Zoom from his home in Malibu. “I don’t see myself that way and I can’t comprehend myself as that.” The 98-year-old has had some time to grapple with the idea.
As the star of cultural touchstones from The Dick Van Dyke Show to Mary Poppins to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to Diagnosis Murder, Van Dyke has been on screen for as long as almost everybody can remember.
His received his first lifetime achievement award 30 years ago. The legend label is not new. Perhaps he struggles to accept it because it implies a finality, that your work is complete and you’re now a part of the past, not the present.
Van Dyke does not consider himself done. “I’d still like to do a one man-show,” he says. “Cary Grant did it. And Gregory Peck.
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