Jack Nicholson was once set to make a big-screen comeback — but the movie’s gone missing in action as the Oscar-winner just gets bigger! The National ENQUIRER caught the 81-year-old star looming large at his usual ringside seat watching the Los Angeles Lakers on Oct. 20. Jack looked upbeat alongside his son Raymond, but Hollywood’s keeping a close eye on the Oscar-winner’s health after his latest film project went bad. His starring role in “Toni Erdmann” alongside Kristin Wiig was announced in Feb. 2017. After that, however, the film was caught in limbo while Jack reportedly failed to get in shape for the role. In Nov. of 2017, The ENQUIRER caught Jack showing off a stomach scar that some health experts diagnosed as “a definitive sign of gastric stomach surgery.” But any drastic measures taken by the star haven’t paid off…
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An insider told The ENQUIRER that there were already concerns about Jack making it before the cameras while “Toni Erdmann” was still in the development stage. “It’ll be a miracle if Jack makes it that far,” warned the source. “Every step is a huge effort.” The film's initial screenwriters moved on from the long-delayed production in May 2018, followed by reports in August that Jack had officially left the project.
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Jack’s last starring role was in 2010’s “How Do You Know” — and his hedonism is well documented. The “As Good as It Gets” star was a “chronic drug user in the early years of his career, experimenting with LSD in the early 1960s and taking cocaine and marijuana,” Marc Eliot wrote in his book “Nicholson: A Biography.” Jack’s sexual appetite led to high-profile affairs, including romances with actresses
Anjelica Huston and
Lara Flynn Boyle.
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According to insiders, Jack picked up a lust for life from his late next-door neighbor
Marlon Brando, who spent his own final years packing on the pounds. “Like Marlon, Jack loves everything to excess,” said a source. “People still see him smoking his cigars, and sometimes he’ll start wheezing so hard that his eyes start tearing!”
An insider told The ENQUIRER that there were already concerns about Jack making it before the cameras while “Toni Erdmann” was still in the development stage. “It’ll be a miracle if Jack makes it that far,” warned the source. “Every step is a huge effort.” The film's initial screenwriters moved on from the long-delayed production in May 2018, followed by reports in August that Jack had officially left the project.
Jack’s last starring role was in 2010’s “How Do You Know” — and his hedonism is well documented. The “As Good as It Gets” star was a “chronic drug user in the early years of his career, experimenting with LSD in the early 1960s and taking cocaine and marijuana,” Marc Eliot wrote in his book “Nicholson: A Biography.” Jack’s sexual appetite led to high-profile affairs, including romances with actresses
Anjelica Huston and
Lara Flynn Boyle.
Photo credit: Getty Images
According to insiders, Jack picked up a lust for life from his late next-door neighbor
Marlon Brando, who spent his own final years packing on the pounds. “Like Marlon, Jack loves everything to excess,” said a source. “People still see him smoking his cigars, and sometimes he’ll start wheezing so hard that his eyes start tearing!”
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