Danny DeVito has offered an replace on Jack Nicholson, months after the Oscar-winning actor made a uncommon public look that sparked issues about his well being.

Throughout that look, Nicholson was seen strolling with a cane and looking out fairly frail. He was accompanied by his daughter, Lorraine, who seemingly took on the function of his caretaker.

Now, Danny DeVito has shared that he not too long ago met with Jack Nicholson and that the octogenarian is doing “nice.”

Again in February, Nicholson sparked issues about his well being amongst followers when he made a uncommon public look.

In footage from the time, the usually personal actor was seen exiting his lodge to attend Saturday Evening Stay at 50 and stopped for a couple of minutes to signal autographs for followers.

Regardless of being dressed sharply, he appeared frail and walked with a cane. His daughter, Lorraine, was by his facet, seemingly helping him.

Following the looks, his good friend, actor DeVito, has calmed the nerves of followers with an replace.

“I simply noticed Jack a pair weeks in the past — it was his birthday a month in the past, and he is nice,” DeVito informed Individuals Journal.

DeVito made the revelation whereas talking with the journal about engaged on the set of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” forward of the upcoming re-release of the drama.

Again then, Nicholson, who starred within the movie, had already begun making a reputation for himself in Hollywood as a bankable star after starring within the likes of “Simple Rider,” “Carnal Data,” “The Final Element,” and “Chinatown.”

Recalling assembly Nicholson, DeVito claimed that he and stars like Christopher Lloyd and Brad Dourif have been left “in awe.”

“We’re within the presence of this man who’s actually at his second, the place he was breaking out into the large time,” DeVito recalled.

Nevertheless, Nicholson made certain to not be standoffish, instantly warming as much as the blokes on the set situated at a working state sanitarium in Portland, Oregon.

“There was no want for an icebreaker,” DeVito additional recalled. “He was instantly simply so embracing…He began out precisely the way in which all people else did, the place he could not get a job. It was like he got here to Hollywood and he was going to simply write and direct, after which Simple Rider comes alongside after the Corman stuff… So he was in our milieu, and he was at all times simply as open and real, and all of us felt it instantly.”

In response to DeVito, Nicholson’s habits towards them on set was real and never a performative act.

“After all, he was doing it as a result of he is that means,” DeVito added. “He was additionally doing it as a result of that needed to be, as a result of we needed to be all joined on the hip in that film, and we had such nice performances.”

Previous to assembly on set, DeVito and Nicholson shared a shocking connection that was unknown to the Oscar-winning actor.

They have been born in the identical hospital in Neptune, New Jersey, and DeVito’s sisters had labored in the identical native hair salon circuit as Nicholson’s older sister.

And regardless of DeVito not eager to share this element with Nicholson to keep away from “ruffling the waters,” his cowl was finally blown by his longtime good friend and former roommate, Michael Douglas, who was additionally engaged on the movie.

“I did not wish to ruffle the waters; I did not wish to add something to the expertise at the moment,” however after Douglas spilled, “Jack got here working across the nook: ‘Ahhhh! You are from Asbury Park,” DeVito recalled.

Previous to Nicholson’s “SNL” look, his final public sighting was in Might 2023, when he attended the NBA Playoffs Western Convention Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Denver Nuggets.

Within the months main as much as “SNL,” the veteran actor stored a low profile, with a supply explaining that he was centered on residing a personal life.