Jack Nicholson’s son, Ray Nicholson

Ray Nicholson He is fighting his demons and winning.

“I only have the saboteur in me,” says Nicholson exclusively Use weekly While discussing his latest project, Boundary. “You know, I think we are all in our own struggle. And part of this is in agreement with who you are and what you are. And I had the saboteum and I have worked so hard and now I see that even when I say that I am nervous, what was really communicating was the first action to say, as” I will do it. I’m not good enough. “”

That the “saboteur” was working on extra hours on the set of BoundaryA dark comedy that has Nicholson like Paul, a escaped mental patient who pursued a pop star (Samara fabric) in the hope of doing the bride. The movie Gritty sees Nicholson in his most dynamic role, and while, when he looked, it is difficult to believe that there was even a moment of doubt, Nicholson insists that the table read for the project was nothing disastrous.

“When we first started, we read this table I fully made,” recalls the actor with a laugh, revealing that he had to go to the bathroom to make “jump jumps” to get it. “I completely read this table. Jimmy Warden), as “oh my God, this child will ruin your movie”.

Luckily for Nicholson, he had a cost in his corner. )Eric ((DaneWho plays the Bell Security Guard), came to me later and was like, “Hey, I want to take lunch?” And I was like, “Yes!” Says Nicholson, the gratitude still persistent in his voice. “It was so kind and loving and supportive.”

Calling Dane, 52, one of his “favorite people to work” and an “empowering companion and giving stage”, Nicholson recalls that he told the experienced star that he was “more nervous” to work with him. (The duo opens the movie with a hilarious, if not an individualized scene, which immediately sets the bar for the rest of the 94 -minute movie.)

“I was like” friend, honestly, I’m so nervous. Like, I’m more nervous to work with you, you know, because you have all this experience with all this tape, “recalls Nicholson. Dane, but surprised him with his answer.” It’s like “No, friend, I’m nervous to work with you!” And it was this sweet moment.

With the first Jitters behind, Nicholson turned to roll, but he found himself against another complication, a little more urgent. The opening sequence required Nicholson demolished a series of hot pockets, known famous for their cheese cheese filling, taking after being taken, despite being “lactose intolerant”.

“I told him (our director) to Jimmy, I’m like” Jimmy, you have to do -Eating these things in hot pocket, man? We went into a little fun about it, but it was that opening sequence and we were just trying to do so many different ways. And “I will continue to cut -in my hot pockets. So I ended up eating, like eight hot pockets that were very hot and mostly cheese and pepper, but they were so hot.

Finally, the production had to pause. “We have actually ended up having to go to the extra hours, because, you know, I went 10-two (the shorthand that was in the longest bath pause). So all the casting crew had to pay me as an additional two hours and all the production was so furious at me. And I was like,` `Well, not to eat these hot pockets that I am all! “” Usinsisting: “This is a true story.”

With the debacle of hot pockets literally behind, Nicholson can now look back his experience with a new perspective.

“What I like about this job is that it is the one that tests me most. After reading the table, I learned something about me,” he says. “It’s as if I didn’t have the power to examine -me, but somehow, with each work, with each character, requires something new. It requires something I didn’t know he had.”

Oscarscar’s winning actor’s son Jack NicholsonRay’s trip to defeat his “great fears and insecurities” goes much further than Boundary. He says he spent years asking if he measures his father, whom he calls his northern star.

“I have this pressure? I don’t know. It’s a good thing? It’s a bad thing? All this is,” he says as he questions his “Nepo Baby” state. “Ultimately, I know, passing step by step on this trip, I begin to understand more (my father) more. And, in a strange way, it becomes more human to me. I understand it more and makes me love more, even if we do not necessarily speak.”

It is not as if the actor had not been able to make his own way, despite the duo had an affinity to portray the complex villages on the screen. In recent years, Ray has starred in a multitude of remarkable projects, from Hit Indie in 2021 Licorice pizza to this year Novocaine opposite Jack quaid.

Also appeared in last year Smile 2A tracking of the 2022 horror film, on a role that required a subtle, but unmistakable tribute, to the iconic performance of his father in the 1980’s The bright. The unplanned moment caused the actor to win a new perspective on being seen as his father’s son.

“I had been trying to make my own image and this or this and the other,” he says. “And then once I saw (smile 2), I liked,” My God, friend, what were you fighting with? It is okay that your identity is your father! You are your father’s son. It’s okay. “”

He adds: “ It was almost like the type of alchemist in which it was all the time, you know, it was too silly and proud to see it. “”

Challenging or not the rules of “Nepo Baby”, Ray is happy to do what he does. Just like with BoundaryHe has committed to climbing over his own fears and obstacles, of the bath variety or otherwise, in order to provide a few hours of consolation in a often brutal world.

“Being on Plato is like” Today I will not lose my demons. Us. “I am an entertainer, this is (one) service. The life of the people is really hard. People go through the same thing I am, and I hope that I can delve into some truth with which other people identify and help them to see their s *** because they cannot see themselves in themselves. This, for me, is all the work and it is the whole industry, I could only expose this point forever.”

Boundary It is now on demand.