Jack Nicholson really just wants to sit under a tree and read a book, not act
Nov. 8, 2023The surprising reason Jack Nicholson isn’t making movies anymore
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Jack Nicholson hasn’t officially retired, but it sounds like he won’t be making more movies anytime soon – and it’s for possibly the best reason ever.
“A friend of mine wanted to put him in a movie,” Maron said, in conversation with Lou Adler, who is a friend of Nicholson’s (H/TTheWrap). “And he had a conversation with him. But Jack says, ‘I don’t want to do it.’ He goes, ‘You know what I did today? I sat under a tree and I read a book.'”
“Jack’s doing whatever he really wants to do. He wants to be quiet,” Adler explained. “He wants to eat what he wants, he wants to live the life he wants.”
Who can blame Nicholson? That pretty much sounds like paradise to us. And with a ride-ranging career that includes the likes ofThe Shining, Batman, and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, and many more under his belt, no one can begrudge Nicholson the quiet life now.
Plus, his performances are the gifts that keep on giving even years later. Take his work as Jack Torrance in The Shining as an example:one eagle-eyed Stanley Kubrick scholar spotted that Nicholson’s Jack breaks the fourth wallover and over in extremely creepy fashion in the movie. Just try sleeping peacefully again now that you’ve noticedthat.
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