Don Johnson was planning to quit acting before he landed Miami Vice part

msn.com:

Don Johnson was ready to quit acting before he landed his iconic role in 'Miami Vice'. The 71-year-old actor starred in the TV show - which ran for five seasons between 1984 to 1989 - as Detective James ‘Sonny’ Crockett, the partner of Detective Ricardo Tubbs, played by Philip Michael Thomas, 72.

The ‘Nash Bridges’ star admitted that when was cast in the programme he “was thinking about quitting the business". Speaking on the SiriusXM's 'The Jess Cagle Podcast with Julia Cunningham', he said: “And well, with the business quitting me. " But after Don was cast in the cop show “everything changed”.

He said: “I was thinking about, ‘Well, I don’t know what I’m going to do but I gotta do something’, and then I got Miami Vice’ and everything.