Michael Douglas says Marvel would not let him quit Ant-Man

"I would have been killed off after the second one, but they wouldn't let me," Douglas said on a podcast.

— Michael Douglas

Douglas as Hank Pym

Douglas played Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man, in four Marvel films from 2015 to 2023, and voiced him in the animated series What If…?

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In 2024 he said he had asked for his character to die in the third film with big special effects, and that he did not expect to return for a fourth.

"It's hard acting," he said of green-screen work, adding that Paul Rudd was a wonderful actor but that once in, "you can't get out of it."

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Michael Douglas says Marvel would not let him quit Ant-Man

"I would have been killed off after the second one, but they wouldn't let me," Douglas said on a podcast.

Douglas played Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man, in four Marvel films from 2015 to 2023, and voiced him in the animated series What If…?

In 2024 he said he had asked for his character to die in the third film with big special effects, and that he did not expect to return for a fourth.

"It's hard acting," he said of green-screen work, adding that Paul Rudd was a wonderful actor but that once in, "you can't get out of it."

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