Jack Nicholson Is Basically Retired - Memory Loss Rumored
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Jack Nicholson is to retire after 60 years onscreen.
The legendary actor - who is arguably most famous for his role in The Shining - is "basically retired", according to his Easy Rider co-star Peter Fonda.
Speaking to The Sun newspaper at a Bafta Tea Party event in Los Angeles, he said: "I think he is basically retired. I don’t want to speak for him but he has done a lot of work and he has done very well as a person financially.
"Sometimes people have a reason that you don’t know, and it’s not for me to ask. I don’t call him up and say, 'Johnny,' I call him Johnny Hop, 'What are you doing?' I would say, 'How are you, how do you feel?'"
Throughout his illustrious career, the 79-year-old actor was nominated for 12 Academy Awards, winning three.
Jack Nicholson pictured here in December last year (Photo: FameFlynet)
He also won seven Golden Globes including the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1999 for his outstanding contribution to film.
Meanwhile, Jack previously admitted he feels ageing has helped him make "improvements in his character".
He said: "If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women. There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I’m not in that state now and that makes me sad.
Dennis Hopper, Feliciano, Peter Fonda, J. Jefferson and Jack Nicholson at the Cannes Film Festival to promote the film 'Easy Rider', 1969 (Photo: Getty)
"But I also believe that a lot of the improvements in my character have come through ageing and the diminishing of powers. It’s all a balancing act; you just have to get used to the ride."
And Jack hates how his job thrusts him into the spotlight as he doesn't want to be treated like the Lincoln Memorial.
Jack Nicholson (Photo: FameFlynet)
Speaking in 2011, he added: "I hate it. I don’t want to be treated like the Medusa or the Lincoln Memorial. People have an idea of me which is not the reality. On set I’m an actor like every other actor.
"Most times, for every part I play, I can think of other actors who would be better. I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I’m going to do it, if I can do it. I try to work out what I have to do on set and how I do that."
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One of my favorite actors.
Gene Hackman couldn't remember the lines any more either.
Marlon Brando stopped even trying. He used cue cards.
Always loved Jack. Better to go out being remembered well than a has been.
He is not really the elder statesman or family patriarch type anyway, which is probably all he could get as parts as an 80 year old.
I guess he could do old gangster again.
"I guess he could do old gangster again."
Or "The Shining" character, because age should not make a difference with that, but certainly not an "Easy Rider" type role again. I thought his light shone pretty bright in "A Few Good Men".
I couldn't open the video so perhaps that's where it's indicated that he couldn't remember lines, because it's not in the article you posted. Perter Fonda went on to say that Jack might act again if he were presented with a script that was irresistable.
You are right Buzz, that is not in the seeded article. I thought it was. It must have been in another article I was looking at at the same time. Nicholson's memory loss has been rumored for a few years though.
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I guess memory loss is what I'm inevitably looking forward to. I'm a few months older than Jack but I can remember events from when I was as young as 2 or 3 years old. However, today, where did I put my glasses down?
However, today, where did I put my glasses down?
That's actually not that bad Buzz. You know that the memory loss is bad when you search for them for an hour, then happen to look in a mirror and see that you're wearing them.
Hah!! That actually happened to me once. My wife had to point out to me that I was wearing them. Hello dementia!!
Hopefully it's just a rumor.
I've always enjoyed him in his many roles. The Last Detail and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest are two that I've watched numerous times.
I liked him in the Postman Always Rings Twice. He's done great work. For whatever his reasons to hang his hat he's done enough that I won't feel cheated.
His upbringing was interesting - growing up thinking that his sister was his sister, when really she was his mother.
Jack was/is still one of the best. While many of us would like to rest on our laurels, few can do so as well as Jack. Haven't seen a Nicholson movie I really did not like. God luck, Jack and I am sure I will be re-watching one of your movies sooner rather than later.
I'm very sorry to learn this-- He has always been such a great actor! May he enjoy his retirement!