Michael Douglas Wins Best Actor in a Comedy Series for 'The Kominsky Method' | Golden Globes 2019 - video Dailymotion

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Douglas won his third career Golden Globe in addition to receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award.

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00:00I feel like I'm playing Vegas here.

00:05Funny thing happens, I'm going to wait.

00:09Hi, Michael, directly in front of you, Chris, right in front of you.

00:12Hi, Chris.

00:13On the right carpet, Catherine Zeta-Jones was such a supporter of you being in a comedy

00:18and a supporter of your career in general.

00:20How much has her love and support meant to you throughout these years?

00:24Well, we celebrated our 18th anniversary recently.

00:30And besides a genuine love that only continues to grow,

00:36I think the fact that we're in the same industry together really helps us understand what's going on.

00:44Catherine, by the way, has a wonderful new half-hour comedy show called Queen America

00:50that's just coming out on Facebook, and I think she's doing some really funny stuff.

00:56So it was great for her to be here tonight and to share.

01:01And it's one of those nice things where your partner totally understands what's going on.

01:08And I flash back to her time when she was pregnant with our daughter during Chicago

01:14and all the award shows that were going on then.

01:17And not all at once, please, please, not all at once, no.

01:28Hi, Michael, I'm Maria from Spain.

01:30I would like to ask you what it means this award for you, and how do you feel it?

01:36How do you feel it tonight?

01:38Hola, Maria.

01:40This is pretty special.

01:42This was in comedy, you know?

01:45And when Chuck Lorre sent me this script, I mean, I wasn't thinking about streaming or getting involved.

01:53But it was such a good script.

01:55And anybody who says, you know, I find getting old funny, I want to drink that Kool-Aid.

02:03That's what I want to be involved with.

02:06And he's just a wonderful writer.

02:09And I love the challenge at this point in my career.

02:12I've done some comedies in my life but not necessarily known for them.

02:16To develop my comic chops because I think comedy is much more difficult than drama.

02:22We all cherish a funny friend that we might have, as opposed to all the serious guys that we know.

02:30So this meant really a lot to me.

02:34And, of course, I acknowledge my father in the end.

02:39Because he more than anybody says, you're getting an award for being funny?

02:44Ha!

02:45Let me see.

02:47Hi, Michael. Congratulations.

02:50I'm here in the middle.

02:52Speaking of your father.

02:53What would you say is one of the greatest lessons you learned from him?

02:59Stamina and tenacity.

03:02He was out of the school where, you know, you give it your best shot.

03:09You want to walk away.

03:10You've done the best thing you can.

03:11And then, fuck it.

03:15So that's the best advice I got.

03:19Yes.

03:20I'd like to ask you the importance.

03:22Yeah, here, Daniel.

03:23It's with Italian television over here on your right.

03:27Over here.

03:30First of all, congratulations for your point of note.

03:34I want to ask you what's the importance.

03:37We saw you with the family, your kids, with Catherine and Zeta Jones.

03:40So how important it is for you to be with your family such an award?

03:45And how much it counts in your career, the family behind you as a supporter?

03:51Well, my kids are not here tonight.

03:54They're back east.

03:55But I think probably the joy of my marriage with Catherine and having our children at a

04:04point in my life where my career had been developed allowed me much more time to enjoy

04:10my family as opposed to maybe earlier on in my life with my son Cameron, who's now just

04:17celebrated his 40th birthday.

04:20With Dylan and Karras, it's much more enjoyable.

04:24The fact that all of them want to be actors, and they're all good actors, makes it all the

04:31more enjoyable.

04:33They understand the whole system, the principles.

04:36And to see my father, Kirk, have a sense of a third generation with all three of my kids,

04:43all three of them Douglases, as well as my niece, Kelsey, that's the fourth one.

04:48So there will definitely be another generation of Douglases going on.

04:53But I enjoy them a lot.

04:57And I really do appreciate the fact that having to do the Kaminsky Method meant that I have

05:01to be out here in California for three and a half months and miss some of their school

05:07events and stuff.

05:08And I appreciate their understanding.

05:11Michael, congratulations.

05:13Angela Bishop here for General Tanner Strait.

05:16Hi, good, Angela.

05:18I'm thrilled for you, but I've watched your career for so long and admired it for so long.

05:23You've gone from television to films and back to television.

05:27How is television different today?

05:30We're seeing so much of it as much as anything else.

05:34Well, it's great you pointed out because, yeah, my career started with the streets of San Francisco.

05:40And I had a mentor there with Karl Malden.

05:43I did 104 hours in four years.

05:47Those were the old days.

05:48We did 26 hours a season in San Francisco on location eight and a half months straight.

05:55And it was my work ethic.

05:57I learned everything.

05:59Made the transition to films, which wasn't easy.

06:03Because for many years, as you know, television, at least in the States, television was a television

06:09actor where they can see you for free.

06:12A movie actor, well, they've got to pay a ticket to see you.

06:16And that was the demarcation line that existed in our culture, American culture, as opposed

06:22to, let's say, the British culture where everybody worked out of London.

06:26You could go much easily.

06:29So streaming has separated and made television much more acceptable to film people.

06:36That's why you're seeing so many film actors go in, particularly people like myself who did

06:41kind of character-driven movies that are hard to come by.

06:46And in my case, I had two or three or four of these little independent character-driven movies

06:52that I cared a lot about, would not get paid.

06:55There was no marketing budget.

06:57I had to schlep around all over only for the movie to be shown for one week

07:02before it went to streaming or video.

07:05So that's why I think now you're seeing in situations like the Kaminsky Method,

07:10a half-hour comedy, which can be 25 minutes long.

07:14It can be 40 minutes long.

07:16You can say anything you want.

07:18There's no commercials.

07:19It's as close as you can get to having a short film.

07:22And for me, at this point in my career and my age, this has been just fantastic.

07:29I love it.

07:30Fantastic for us, too.

07:34Thank you all.

07:35Happy New Year.

07:36Thanks a lot.

07:37This way.

Michael Douglas Wins Best Actor in a Comedy Series for 'The Kominsky Method' | Golden Globes 2019

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