Michael Douglas: ‘I think the audience sees there’s a struggle – I’m not just a violent, nasty person’

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The veteran actor answers your questions on playing villains sympathetically, acting with his hair – and dropping his trousers on the golf course

You recently said you channel your characters through your hair. What do you mean?A long time ago, after Black Rain with Ridley Scott – where I got this sort of Anglo-afro perm – my dear friend Jack Nicholson said: “What’s with your hair?” I looked at him and said: “Wait a minute. Youact with your hair.” Falling Down – I have a hairdresser to thank for deciding at the very last minute: “Let’s just go with a flat top.

It’s funny you should mention that. You get to an age where you start thinking about your will and estate. Now I’m thinking I’m also going to have to license my name and likeness so the rights go to my family rather than to the metaverse. I see what AI is doing with pictures with text. It’s only matter of time before you’ll be able to recreate any dead person at any age with the voice and the mannerisms, so I want to have some control.Karl MaldenWell … it was a job.

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