Few Hollywood actors can boast of having a career like Jack Nicholson’s. The American artist rests retired from public life after more than 60 years dedicated body and soul to his passion: acting.
You cannot complain about a lack of recognition, since he is crowned as one of the most Oscar-winning actors in the history of cinema with three statuettes. He won the Best Actor Oscar for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Best… Impossible, in 1976 and 1998 respectively. He also won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1984 thanks to his dazzling performance in Endearment.
The American star is currently 85 years old and has lived apart from public life for almost a decade. The last appearance of him where he could be seen was in 2021 at the hands of his son Ray Nicholson, with whom he seems to have a close relationship.
In the images that came to light, the actor appeared sitting next to his son watching a game of his beloved LA Lakers. According to various media, the artist’s son is one of the few people with whom Nicholson maintains contact, since he has become a rather antisocial person.
Last Thursday and after years without hearing from him, the paparazzi managed to photograph Nicholson enjoying the fresh air on his terrace overlooking the Franklin Canyon reservoir, in the mansion where he lives.
In the images, taken quite early, the actor looked like he had just gotten up. The movie star was dressed in a baggy orange shirt and baggy sweatpants, and he was calm as he watched the horizon and listened to the birdsong on the cool spring morning.
These images come at a key moment, since a few months ago several of the actor’s friends assured that they were afraid that he would die alone due to his obsession with isolating himself. Despite his desire to cut contacts, the actor continues to call some people, among which his son Ray de él stands out. Last January, a good friend of the artist anonymously told Radar that Nicholson was physically fine, but his mind “had gone.”
Since he retired, the New Jersey native actor has been dodging the various rumors that he had to stop working because he began to fight Alzheimer’s or dementia, diseases that made it impossible for him to remember his lines on set.
Hundreds of fans have expressed their discomfort and concern about the recent images of the actor on their social networks, since they can see an obvious physical wear and tear on the movie star.
Although there are many people who have commented on his disheveled appearance, many others have come out to defend the actor, an 85-year-old man, possibly ill, who was caught on camera just awake in the morning. There are also those who attacked journalists for not leaving the protagonist of The Shining alone. ”My dad’s dad couldn’t get up from his chair at that age and he died of a heart attack. I say Jack Nicholson is doing well for 85” or ”Jack Nicholson is 85 with dementia and you guys are bothering that poor man. The paparazzi are sick individuals”, are some of the comments that can be read on the Internet.
