Douglas relishes family-man role

He has played everything from a Wall Street vulture to the president, but these days Michael Douglas is focusing on his favourite role – father and husband.

“I’ve learned to kick back and be a family man,” he says. “Since I married Catherine (Zeta-Jones), we’ve been raising a new family. I’m enjoying it immensely. And my priorities have changed enormously.”

Since getting married in 2000, the two have had a son and daughter.

Douglas was in Savannah, Georgia, to accept a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Savannah Film Festival.

The award made him “feel like I need to check with my doctor and see if everything’s OK,” the 63-year-old Academy Award winner joked in an interview with the Savannah Morning-News. I’m slowing down, but I’m not ready to call it quits yet,” he said.

Douglas, a steady hitmaker in the 1980s and 90s with 'Fatal Attraction', 'Wall Street' and 'Basic Instinct', has delivered some box-office duds lately: Secret Service thriller 'The Sentinel', the action comedy 'The In-Laws' and the domestic drama 'It Runs in the Family', which co-stars his parents, Kirk and Diana Douglas, and his grown son, Cameron.

His most recent role was a loveable kook sniffing after mythical Spanish treasure in 'King of California'.