Michael Douglas, producerMy father, Kirk, had acquired the rights to Ken Kesey’s novel in the early 1960s and developed it into a Broadway play, with him playing the lead character, RP McMurphy. Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Distributors all turned us down’ … Michael Douglas on the set. It turned out his dad was a Native American agent and he sold a lot of cars to them. When Miloš watched it to assess Shelley Duvall for a role in Cuckoo’s Nest, he asked who I was. A few weeks later, we were filming McMurphy coming back from electroconvulsive shock therapy and pretending to be a zombie.

Source: The Guardian April 11, 2017 05:02 UTC