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00:00Jack Nicholson was scared of Ferris Bueller's day off. Yeah, this guy
00:08But seriously, he thought this movie meant the end of his career in a 1986 interview with the New York Times
00:14Nicholson was asked if he felt like a creative person trapped in an uncreative age in the industry Nicholson replied
00:20Well, you know last night I saw what's that movie Ferris something?
00:25Well that movie made me feel totally irrelevant to anything that any audience could want and
00:30119 years old believe me everyone else watching it liked it
00:34And you know, I literally walked out of there thinking my days are numbered. These people are trying to kill me
00:40Imagine what he thinks of today's limited diet of Fast and Furious movies and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in
00:461986 he complained about
00:48Conglomeration narrowing the types of projects a studio would finance
00:51He dreamed of a Napoleon biopic with Stanley Kubrick that couldn't get off the ground
00:56Ferris Bueller's day off and the audience's enthusiastic reaction made him believe that the industry might be passing him by
01:02Of course now we know that that didn't happen
01:05He went on to give Oscar nominated
01:07Performances in ironweed a few good men and about Schmidt in addition to winning his third Academy Award for as good as it gets
01:13But in recent years Jack Nicholson has stepped back from moviemaking not acting in a film since 2010's
01:19How do you know he even turned down Lorne Michaels offer to star in MacGruber but given Nicholson's feelings about Ferris Bueller, that's understandable