Morgan Freeman Says His 'Appetite' for Acting 'Is Still There' at 88 but Admits 'It's Dimmed a Little'
- - Morgan Freeman Says His 'Appetite' for Acting 'Is Still There' at 88 but Admits 'It's Dimmed a Little'
Tommy McArdleNovember 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Morgan Freeman said in a new interview that he still holds an "appetite" for acting even at 88 years old
"I will concede that it’s dimmed a little. But not enough to make a serious difference," he added
Freeman appears on the big screen in Now You See Me: Now You Don't, in theaters now
Morgan Freeman is happy to still be working as an actor, more than six decades after he first graced the screen.
Freeman, 88, told The Guardian in a recent interview that his "appetite is still there" for his craft as he promotes his latest film, Now You See Me: Now You Don't. "I will concede that it’s dimmed a little. But not enough to make a serious difference," the Oscar winner said of his interest in continuing to work.
In the new Now You See Me, Freeman reprises his role as magic and illusion debunker Thaddeus Bradley. The role marks his first onscreen appearance since he appeared in two movies — Gunner and My Dead Friend Zoe — in 2024, in addition to his recurring role in the second season of Paramount+'s Lioness.
Freeman has worked steadily into his 80s, with more than 15 acting credits since 2020 alone. Retirement has occurred to him, as he told The Guardian, but never long enough for him to seriously consider giving up acting for good. “Sometimes the idea of retirement would float past me but, as soon as my agent says there’s a job or somebody wants you or they’ve made an offer, the whole thing just boils back into where it was yesterday," Freeman told the outlet. "How much you’re going to pay, where we’re gonna be?"
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Freeman made his onscreen debut in a 1964 movie titled The Pawnbroker. Among roughly 150 screen acting roles credited to him over the decades, he is best known for movies like Driving Miss Daisy, Se7en, The Dark Knight and The Shawshank Redemption. (He won his Academy Award in 2005 for Million Dollar Baby, and has been nominated for an Oscar on four other occasions.) “If you do something that’s well received and it lasts years, people talk about the fact that you were in that, so it feels nice,” Freeman said of his best-loved hits. "Heavens, yes,” the actor added, with a laugh, when The Guardian asked whether he experiences fans knowing him best from The Shawshank Redemption. “It’s like I was not ever in anything else.”
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"The Four Horsemen return along with a new generation of illusionists performing mind-melding twists, turns, surprises, and magic unlike anything ever captured on film," reads an official synopsis for the movie; Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco reprise their roles from the series' other two movies in addition to Freeman, and young actors like Ariana Greenblatt, Justice Smith Rosamund Pike and Dominic Sessa join for the new installment.
Now You See Me: Now You Don't is in theaters now.
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