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Michael Douglas didn't forgive Francis Ford Coppola for 'Streets of San Francisco' slight · Best of: Features

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  Michael Douglas didn't forgive Francisco for Copala for streets of San Francisco
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  slightly. This article is being read by
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  an automated voice generated by Everlet. Veteran actor Michael Douglas owes
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  San Francis Ford one of his earliest career successes, but he recently
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  released on Conan O'Brien's podcast that he still carries a bit of
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  a grudge against one of the city's most notable directors, Francis Ford
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  Copelua. On The episode of Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend released Monday,
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  Douglas made an appearance to promote his new memoir, One Halleluvah Ride.
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  The conversation with O'Brien turned toward the iconic early nineteen seventies crime
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  drama, The Streets of San Francisco, which ran for one twenty one
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  episodes over the course of five seasons. O'Brien noted that, as a
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  young lad, he would occasionally stay up late to watch the show,
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  or catch it in reruns. During that period, a decade before Douglas's
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  breakout film role in Romancing the Stone, there was a greater divide
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  between actors in television and film. What's fascinating to me is your
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  don't look down on the streets of San
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  Francisco said O'Brien, which you could see some actors thinking, Oh, I'm
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  doing T V, episodic T V. I want to become a movie
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  star. What am I doing this for? That was not your attitude.
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  It turns out that negative attitude toward television was one still held
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  by the city's most notable director. San Francisco had its prestigious directors
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  led by Francis Ford Capella and everything, and they wanted nothing to
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  do with us, Douglett said. And I remember they first season that
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  we were up in San Francisco, them, were sting on us in
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  terms of The press, and how Southern California is coming up here,
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  hurting our city and all of that. Then the ratings came In
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  the show was a success, and they realized it's a love letter,
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  it's a love letter to San Francisco. So they all turned it
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  around the next year. We didn't forgive them, we didn't forgive them.
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  After four years working on the streets of San Francisco, Douglas asked
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  to get out of his contract in order to take a new
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  path as a producer on the now iconic film One Flew Over
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  the Cuckoo's Nest. In the early 90s, he would go on to
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  star in another San Francisco set project, Basic Instinct, as well as
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  play a key role in Marvel's Ant Man franchise, which was also
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  filmed locally. Despite his salty comments, Douglas appears to have buried the
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  hatchet with Coppola on at least one occasion when he served as
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  a producer on Coppola's nineteen ninety seven legal drama The Rainmaker.