On Friday night, Michael Douglas stopped by “Real Time with Bill Maher” to promote his mammoth memoir “One Helluva Ride,” chronicling the acclaimed actor and producer’s rise through the Hollywood ranks, from winning the Best Picture Oscar for producing “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” to winning the Best Actor Oscar for “Wall Street” to the present-day. The book also covered “sex, drugs and rock and roll,” as he told Maher, including how Douglas helped pay for college by smuggling marijuana across the country in fancy suitcases gifted to him by his actor-father Kirk Douglas. Well, I found out that each one of those suitcases could hold 22 kilos of marijuana.’ I would go back east to see my mom with the clothes on my back and two suitcases.
This was called BD: Before Dogs.” Later on in their talk, the HBO host gave Douglas props for working normal jobs to make money despite having a rich actor as a father, including his time working at a Mobil gas station in Connecticut at the age of 20 and earning the title of “Mobil Man of the Month.” The topic prompted Douglas to address the “nepo baby” discourse, where the children of Hollywood players have been criticized for getting a significant leg up in the industry.
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