New movie ‘Last Vegas’ starring Hollywood’s biggest Michael Douglas, Kevin Kline, Robert DeNiro and Morgan Freeman opens November 1.
The plot: Three sixty-something friends take a break from their day-to-day lives to throw a bachelor party in Las Vegas for their last remaining single pal.
The quartet, who have never worked together before, speak candidly to AARP about their lives and grown men who still embrace everything that life throws at them.
Here’s how it went:
On the freedom that comes with age
Freeman: “Doesn’t matter if it’s morning or night. Friend hands you a glass, you look him in the eye and say ‘Cheers.’”
On working in Hollywood as a 50+ actor
Freeman: “You feel like you feel. Age is arbitrary. Some days on the golf course, I feel like I’m 90. Other days, 50.”
Kline: “It’s not how old you are but how you are old, as the saying goes. Actors don’t have ages—we have age ranges. But I have to wear a hearing aid in this movie and let my hair and beard go white, so I felt every bit my age.”
On the passage of time
Douglas: “You don’t change that much. The kid in you is still there. You’re supposed to get wise and more mature, but you have the same foibles, insecurities, good things, bad things.”
Freeman: “I never thought I would reach this age. Really. I was fairly certain that with my lifestyle, it would have been truncated some time back. I was always the one who dared to jump out the second-story window.”
De Niro: “You know the end is near, not that you think it’s going to happen to you. You read the obits and see somebody passed who shouldn’t have. You feel, “Wow, he was so young.” It’s a bit of luck just being here.
On their on-set chemistry
Director, Jon Turteltaub: “I was worried about these legends gelling, but one boisterous dinner together was all it took. Michael was instantly team quarterback, Kevin was class clown, Morgan was the lovable troublemaker and Bobby was the cool, aloof one. It was a lot like other friendships between men. The more they got to know each other, the more they insulted each other.”