You might know him best as the narrator and villainous dad from Matilda. Or Frank Reynolds from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The list of Danny DeVito roles goes on.
To most Americans, he's the outrageously funny characters he portrayed, which also includes the iconic sitcomTaxi (as Louie De Palma).
But for most of his five-decade career, the 81-year-old has also been a successful director and a producer who fights for films he believes in — including the Quentin Tarantino classic Pulp Fiction — to steadily become a major Hollywood player.
His first paying role was in the play The Contrast in 1965. When they performed at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Connecticut, he also helped build a new amphitheater on the property — and none other than Michael Douglas was on the work crew. They bonded instantly, AARP The Magazine reports.
“We had a lot of fun and then maintained our friendship over an incredibly long period of time,” Douglas, also 81, told the magazine as part of DeVito's cover-story article published Wednesday, July 29. “When I graduated from college and ended up in New York, he and I were roommates. He just was a special guy. And I think it was also that I was a little self-conscious in terms of being an early nepo baby, and he never treated me as a movie star’s son.”
Douglas ultimately started producing and, at one point, took director Miloš Forman to see an off-Broadway production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, in which DeVito played Martini, a childlike mental patient given to vivid hallucinations. When it was time to choose the actors for the film version, “Danny was the first person cast,” Douglas told AARP. "Miloš saw him and said, 'Yeah, we have Martini now.'"
Looking ahead, DeVito is returning to the big screen to reprise his role as Grandpa Eddie in Jumanji: Open World, due out on Christmas. “The older I get, the better I get for that part, so just bring it on,” he says.
Check out his AARP clip below.
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