Being an Emmy-winning comedy actor doesn’t mean you’ve got jokes in real life.
Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones’ son Dylan Douglas told Pvnew this week that his famous father, like most regular dads, “can be embarrassing sometimes.”
“More in terms of what he says, rather than who he is,” Dylan, 22, clarified at the Broadway opening of “Good Night, Oscar” on Monday.
“Just dad stuff. [He’s a] bit out of touch, bad jokes for sure!” the Brown University grad joked.
Michael, 78, and Zeta-Jones, 53, met at the 1998 Deauville Film Festival where Michael was promoting “A Perfect Murder” and the Welsh-born star was talking up “The Mask of Zorro.”
The “Fatal Attraction” star famously said to Jones: “I want to father your children.”
The two married in November 2000 and share Dylan and sister, Carys, 20. Michael also has an older son named Cameron, 44, from a previous marriage.
Michael is now deeply involved in The Douglas Foundation, a charitable organization established by his father, Kirk Douglas, and stepmother Anne Buydens.
Kirk died in 2020 at the age of 103 and Buydens passed away in 2021 at the age of 102.
The screen legend left the bulk of his $80 million estate to the charity.
“It’s mostly charities that he [Kirk] was involved in for a long time before,” Michael told us at the event, “Children’s playgrounds, cancer research, a number of areas that he worked on his lifetime.”
Michael came to the Broadway opening to support the show’s star Sean Hayes, who he knows from a guest appearance on “Will & Grace,” in which he played a detective attracted to Will [Eric McCormack].
Hayes plays real-life concert pianist and actor Oscar Levant.
Levant, who played Gene Kelly’s sidekick in “An American in Paris,” was also famous for being one of the first celebrities to talk openly about his struggles with mental health. He was frequently in and out of psychiatric hospitals and was addicted to prescription medication. He died in 1972 at 65 years old.
Other celebs who came to cheer on Hayes included his “Smartless” podcast co-host Jason Bateman, Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Steven Spielberg, Cynthia Nixon, LaChanze, Steve Martin, Justin Theroux, Martin Short and Matthew Rhys.
Also, there was Matthew Broderick, who came with good pal “Some Like It Hot” co-lyricist Scott Wittman, who joked, “I’m Matthew’s work wife!”
