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still wants to be relevant.
How is Hollywood different now than it
was back in ’80s and ’90s?
It’s really a golden age for actors, with
all the streaming platforms out there
now. [Back then], as a film actor, you
didn’t do television, and you certainly
didn’t do commercials. That would’ve
been career suicide. [There are] so
many opportunities for us out there
now, no matter what age.
You’ve made some great movies
over the years: The Right Stuff, The Big
Easy, Traffic...
Don’t call me a legend yet. My life isn’t
over. I have a beginning, a middle and
an end. But I’m still very much in the
middle. I might still climb the
Himalayas, and plant a flag or two.
Who knows?
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is parents are Hollywood
royalty, so it’s not surprising
that Dennis’ oldest son is
an actor himself. “I’m really
proud of him — he did it all on his
own,” Dennis says of Jack, who’s
starred in big films like The Hunger
Games and Logan Lucky, as well as
in Martin Scorsese’s HBO series,
Vinyl. (“I told him, ‘How about
helping your old man out a bit?’ ”
jokes Dennis.) Growing up, “[Jack]
always had a video camera in his
hands and was making up stories.
But [Meg and I] didn’t allow him to
be a child actor,” he explains. Still,
he “did drama in high school and
college, and that was his way in.”
And while Dennis says he did offer
to help his son after graduation
by “getting him an agent,” Jack
refused. “He said he wanted to do
it by himself — and he did.”OK!