Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
The elder son of Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill, Douglas received his Bachelor of Arts in Drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His early acting roles included film, stage, and television productions. Douglas first achieved prominence for his performance in the ABC police procedural television series The Streets of San Francisco, for which he received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations.
Michael Douglas had a very specific plan in mind for his Marvel character Hank Pym in 2023′s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania – he wanted to die.
The 79-year-old actor joined the MCU in 2015 and appeared in all three Ant-Man movies alongside the likes of Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lily.
During an appearance on The View, he explained that he pictured a dramatic onscreen death for the character. Keep reading to find out more… “[Getting killed off] actually was my request for the third one,” he said, via EW. “I said I’d like to have a serious [death], with all these great special effects.
There’s got to be some fantastic way where I can shrink to an ant size and explode, whatever it is. I want to use all those effects.” He continued, weighing in on if he’d be back for a fourth movie: “But, that was on the last one.
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