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Michael Douglas Recalls Moment He Was 'Finally' Able to 'Step Out of the Shadow of My Dad' Kirk Douglas

Michael Douglas said he felt he did not fully step out of his movie-star dad Kirk Douglas's shadow until 1987, when he won an Oscar for 'Wall Street' and 'Fatal Attraction' became a box office hit.

"The commercial success of Fatal Attraction and winning the Oscar for Wall Street sort of finally got me free of that shadow, and I think that's was a big moment." "I think the advantage is that you were able to see your father as a movie star, his friends, Burt Lancaster, Gregory Peck, others, Tony Curtis, all of them coming, Frank Sinatra, and you see them with their own foibles," he said. "You see them as regular people who had issues just like everybody else, and it took a lot of that pizzazz out of the thing, and I think helped you conduct your own life in a more practiced easier way," he explained.

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