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'I Don't Worry About The Part': Michael Douglas Reflects On 50 Years Of Making Movies

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson talks with Douglas about his long career, from the 1987 drama "Wall Street" to the new Netflix show "The Kominsky Method."
Michael Douglas attends the premiere of Disney And Marvel's 'Ant-Man And The Wasp' on June 25, 2018 in Hollywood, California. (Rich Fury/Getty Images)

Actor-producer Michael Douglas was in Boston last week to accept the Bette Davis Lifetime Achievement Award from Boston University. Starting out in television in “The Streets of San Francisco” in the 1970s, Douglas has won accolades for his wide variety of works — from the 1987 drama “Wall Street” to the new Netflix show “The Kominsky Method.”

Douglas sat down with Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson to discuss his long career. He says he was always attracted to roles that “were more dangerous” and entered a “kind of gray area.”

“Maybe it came out of, I was in college in the ’60s, and the Vietnam War was going on, and we also got into a period of that gray area,” Douglas says. “And so I’ve always been

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