Sex, adventure and success: Michael Douglas, the everyman who fulfilled the fantasies of a generation

In the mid-1960s, Kirk Douglas bought the rights to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest with the idea of reprising the role of Randle McMurphy that he had played on Broadway. A decade later, the film hit the screen, produced by Michael Douglas and starring Jack Nicholson. The patriarch of the clan had sold the rights to his son, but he had not anticipated that he would give the role to Nicholson, believing that his father was too old to play the lead. Kirk never forgave him. The anecdote, recalled in the documentary The Douglas Dynasty: Fame, Addiction and Finding Home, serves to underline the determination with which Michael took control of his career from the beginning.

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