Michael Douglas

The veteran actor answers your questions on playing villains sympathetically, acting with his hair – and dropping his trousers on the golf course.

The rules are I have to whip it out if I don’t hit it past the ladies’ tees, which I manage most of the time. To use a baseball term: I have a pretty good batting average. It’s like the hair – once you have put the clothes on, the character follows: from Falling Down with the tight, white, button-down shirt with the plastic thing in the pockets for the pens, to the beautiful design for Wall Street, and Liberace (in Behind the Candelabra, 2013), whose costume was just magical. It was early in my career; I didn’t have a whole lot of options. The audience laughed and the producer Sherry Lansing said: “I can’t believe it. Was it the opportunity to work with Karl Malden? it was a job. What attracted you to The Streets of San Francisco (1972-1977)? Now I’m thinking I’m also going to have to license my name and likeness so the rights go to my family rather than to the metaverse. A lot of times, I do lead with my hair. I get a big kick out of having these kids pulling on my jacket, saying: “Hank Pym! I think the social acceptance of two people having a conversation, looking at their phones all the time.