Michael Douglas might have had one very rocky year in his personal life, but it looks like he's back and better than ever on the big screen. The Hollywood actor is opening up about his new Marvel film, Ant-Man and playing "one of the bad guys."

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Douglas, who is currently promoting his latest project, Reach, at the Toronto International Film Festival this week, says that he was interested in playing in Ant-Man because he wants Hollywood to go back to "good guy, bad guy" storylines in their films.

The actor told Vulture on Wednesday, "I mean, I think that with ISIS in particular and Putin's move in Ukraine, that we have a consensus that these guys are bad guys, black hats. Back in my father's time, with John Wayne movies and World War II, we had good guys and bad guys, but I'm a product of the Vietnam War. Most of my career's been in that grey area."

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What's more, Douglas says that moviegoers shouldn't be too surprised to see him in a film genre that he's had little past experience in.

He explained, "I've been pretty lucky - although everyone tries to stereotype me for my Gordon Gekko Wall Street character, I think I've had a pretty diversified career in terms of types of characters. The only thing is, my entire career has been contemporary roles, you know? That was not planned. But I always hear from people, "When I see your name, I don't know what I'm going to see, but I know it's going to be good." And I say, "I'll take that any time."

Despite the fact that he's been working in Hollywood for several decades now, Douglas says that there's always a still a new learning curve with each project he takes. He says that he still learns something new about himself as a performer everyday.

Douglas said, "Maybe it's a question of not having anything to prove, but I'm more comfortable with myself and enjoy acting more after that whole experience. Part of it may just be because I'm alive and functioning, but I find I have more confidence and more desire to try different things."

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