“These People Are Trying to Kill Me.” Jack Nicholson Felt Insignificant in the Film Industry Because of This Movie
Jack Nicholson was in crisis in the 1980s. A production he saw at the cinema made him begin to doubt his own future in the film industry.
Despite the fact that Jack Nicholson has not appeared in a film since 2010 he is still a significant figure in the world of cinema, who has hardly been forgotten. Nor can it be said that he lost his importance in his final years of work, as he was also reckoned with then. The actor managed to maintain his status as a cinema star, despite the fact that he was in crisis in the 1980s and feared that he would no longer mean anything in cinema.
This thought came to his mind after watching the 1986 film, Ferris Bueller's A Day Off, which was very successful in theaters. During an interview with The New York Times, Nicholson confessed that as an industry veteran, he began to worry that his star was no longer shining so brightly and that new trends in the industry would push him into the background.
Well, that movie made me feel totally irrelevant to anything that any audience could want, and 119 years old. Believe me, everyone else watching it liked it. And you know, I literally walked out of there thinking my days are numbered. These people are trying to kill me.
Despite the crisis the actor was experiencing, Nicholson did not lose his relevance at all in the following years, he continued to receive significant roles in cinematic spectacles. After all, he starred in About Schmidt and A Few Good Men, for roles in which he was nominated for Academy Awards, as well as in As Good as It Gets, which earned him an Oscar.
So in the 1980s, Nicholson was far from ending his career and retiring into oblivion – he continued to matter and could still accomplish something, as his subsequent works proved.
