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Michael Douglas Recalls Why Relationship with Dad Kirk Douglas 'Was Not Particularly Good' Growing Up

Michael Douglas said on 'Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?' that his relationship with his father, late actor Kirk Douglas, 'was not particularly good' while he was growing up, though he noted the pair grew closer later in life.

on MAX, in which host Chris Wallace asked him about life with his famous dad Kirk, the acclaimed actor who died in 2020 at age 103. Michael Douglas and Kirk Douglas, circa 1965.Hulton Archive/Getty Images Wallace previously asked Michael whether he measured his own success in Hollywood against Kirk's and noted that he also followed his own father, late journalist Mike Wallace, into his profession. "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 was a big moment."

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