Rick Moranis in March 2024.Photo:The US Sun/MEGA
The US Sun/MEGA
Suddenly,Rick Moranis!
TheLittle Shop of Horrorslegend was seen in a rare candid photograph during a rainy day outing in New York City on Wednesday.
Moranis, who celebrates his 71st birthday in April, was dressed for the wet weather in a blue jacket over a matching shirt, tan pants and black shoes. He finished the look with a multicolored knit cap.
Rick Moranis takes walk in New York City.The US Sun/MEGA
The actor and comedian, who has not appeared in a live-action feature film in more than 25 years, has rarely been spotted out and about since he was the victim of arandom punch to the headin the same city back in October 2020. (A suspect wasapprehended and chargedthe following month.)
Moranis decided to take a step back from Hollywood a year after his wife, costume designer Ann Belsky, died in February 1991 of breast cancer. The couple shared two children: daughter Rachel Moranis and son Mitchell Moranis.
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Rick Moranis onProp Culture(2020).Disney Plus
TheGhostbustersactor slowly left public life after her death to focus on being a single father, but he’s never retired from the business, as he toldThe Hollywood Reporterin 2015.
“I took a break, which turned into a longer break,” he toldTHR. “But I’m interested in anything that I would find interesting. I still get the occasional query about a film or television role and as soon as one comes along that piques my interest.”
“Stuff happens to people all the time, and people make adjustments, change careers, move to another city,” he toldTHR. “Really, that’s all I did.”
While Moranis left Hollywood to focus on being present for his children,he didn’t express regretover his decision.
“I was working with really interesting people, wonderful people. I went from that to being at home with a couple of little kids, which is a very different lifestyle. But it was important to me,” he said, adding, “I have absolutely no regrets whatsoever. My life is wonderful.”
Marcia Strassman and Rick Moranis inHoney, I Shrunk the Kids(1989).Disney/Kobal/Shutterstock
Disney/Kobal/Shutterstock
In February 2020, it was announced that Moraniswould make his return to the big screeninShrunk, reprising his iconic role of scientist Wayne Szalinski that he first played in 1989’sHoney, I Shrunk the Kids. He later played Wayne in two sequels:Honey, I Blew Up the Kid(1992) and 1997’sHoney, We Shrunk Ourselves, which was his most recent in-person movie role.
More than three years after Moranis’Shrunkcasting was first announced,Josh Gad, who is set to costar in the film, gavean update on the anticipated production.
“A lot of u ask me what’s going on with this film. Truth is, we were inches from starting and thenCOVIDhit, inches from starting again & then my schedule exploded with conflicts, inches from starting again & budget got the best of us,” Gad, 43,wrote on X(formerly Twitter) in June 2023.
source: people.com
