Michael Douglas
Fresh Air

Michael Douglas

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 5, 202644 min
  • Interview
  • Entertainment

Michael Douglas is one of the most recognizable actors of our time, but in 1987, many still knew him as Kirk Douglas's son. That year, he starred in Fatal Attraction and Wall Street, and his role as Gordon Gekko won him the Oscar for Best Actor. "When I went up and received my Oscar for Wall Street, I thanked my father because I finally felt I was out of his shadow. And those two pictures in that year was when I finally felt I was my own man,” he tells Tonya Mosley. Behind the accolades, Douglas was struggling –- drinking heavily and...

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Austin Tice is an American journalist who disappeared over a decade ago while reporting in Syria. And for years, we've been searching for him. This looks like a secret passage.

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I'm just pushing the door so he can get in. Come on, come on. Listen to Where Is Austin Tice? from NPR's Embedded and BBC Radio 4

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on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Moseley. My guest today, Oscar-winning actor and producer Michael Douglas, has spent much of his career playing men consumed by money, ambition, sex, and control.

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