It’s been three months since Kirk Douglas’ death, and now his son Michael Douglas and his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones have paid a very sweet tribute to the Hollywood legend. Speaking to Entertainment Tonight the 75-year-old said his father was one of a kind.
“There wasn’t anyone like him,” he told the publication. “There’s another generation, that was the great generation, post-World War II… and Dad was one of kind.”
Michael went on to reveal his father, who died in February at age 103, was constantly teasing him and trying to flirt with his wife Catherine, 50. “He always used to tease me. We would call him up and he would be like, ‘Enough with you, let me talk to your wife,'” Michael said. “He was a flirt until the very end.”
Catherine agreed, saying: “Oh yes, he’s a great flirt.” She continued: “He crosses our minds every day. But for me, during this time of, ‘OK, we are all locked down, what do you do?’ It’s so easy to go into a procrastination vibe.
“And Kirk, he went through so much from a helicopter crash to a stroke and then just age, being alone and what does he do with this time. And what was so admirable about him was he was always involved with courage events, he wrote 11 books, he worked with his rabbi, he worked with his philanthropic endeavors and he always created something to do and he taught me that lesson.”
The Spartacus star passed away on February 5 at the age of 103, and his famous son Michael announced the sad news to the world on social media at the time.
“It is with tremendous sadness that my brothers and I announce that Kirk Douglas left us today at the age of 103,” he wrote. “To the world he was a legend, an actor from the golden age of movies who lived well into his golden years, a humanitarian whose commitment to justice and the causes he believed in set a standard for all of us to aspire to.
“But to me and my brothers Joel and Peter he was simply Dad, to Catherine, a wonderful father-in-law, to his grandchildren and great-grandchild their loving grandfather, and to his wife Anne, a wonderful husband.”
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