Victorious over throat cancer, actor Michael Douglas spotted on a beach in the Gulf of Saint-Tropez

This isn't the first time, nor will it be the last, that Michael Douglas has visited Pampelonne Beach in Ramatuelle, but it's still a small event.

Spotted at Club 55 in the presence of Lawrence Stroll, the boss of the Aston Martin F1 team, whose son, Lance, occupies a seat with Fernando Alonso, the 80-year-old actor is relaxing with his family. Michael Douglas, son of Kirk, needs no introduction, and his filmography stretches from Saint-Tropez to Menton: The Hunt for the Diamond, Basic Instinct, The Game, Fatal Attraction, Free Fall, Wall Street, My Life with Liberace, Traffic as well as numerous successful series, from The Streets of San Francisco to The Kominsky Method, including Franklin , his latest major project around Benjamin Franklin for Apple TV +, which he came to present at Canneseries in 2024.

A final film planned for the end of 2025?

In early July, at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, where the Oscar-winning film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, of which he was the producer, celebrated its 50th anniversary, Michael Douglas confirmed that he was stepping away from film sets.

"I haven't worked since 2022 because I realized I had to stop. I worked hard for almost 60 years, and I didn't want to be one of those people who dies on a film set," he said, before qualifying his remarks a little in the face of his audience's astonishment. "I don't consider myself officially retired, because if an exceptional project comes along, I could come back. But otherwise, I'm very happy just watching my wife work," he concluded, referring to his partner, Catherine Zeta-Jones, to whom he has been married for 25 years.

This withdrawal is not a surprise because, affected by throat cancer against which he emerged victorious, Michael Douglas had slowed down his acting activities since 2015, concentrating mainly on production. However, the chance of release schedules could allow the French public to see Michael Douglas one last time on the screens since his last film - shot in 2022 - Looking Through Water , is expected in theaters at the end of the year.

A feature film by Roberto Sneider in which he plays opposite his real son, Cameron Douglas, in a story about a father trying to reconcile with his son.