{"id":451913,"date":"2026-05-30T00:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T00:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/451913\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T00:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T00:32:14","slug":"jack-nicholson-and-dustin-hoffman-have-barely-seen-friend-warren-beatty-over-the-last-year-so-reclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/451913\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman Have \u2018Barely Seen\u2019 Friend Warren Beatty Over the Last Year: \u2018So Reclusive\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

For more than five decades, Warren Beatty<\/a> shared a close bond with Dustin Hoffman<\/a> and Jack Nicholson<\/a> \u2014 but a source says the Bonnie and Clyde legend has recently gone quiet on his Hollywood pals.<\/p>\n

\u201cWarren\u2019s been so reclusive lately that Jack and Dustin have barely seen him over the last year and a half,\u201d the source tells Closer. \u201cIt\u2019s tough, because Warren is a friend they would both do just about anything for.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Closer previously reported<\/a>, the 89-year-old icon prefers to stay away from the spotlight these days, even as wife Annette Bening<\/a> enjoys a career comeback \u2014 most recently appearing in the Yellowstone spinoff Dutton Ranch.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s accomplished everything he wants to in his career and keeping up with the Hollywood rat race holds no interest to him,\u201d says the source. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t need to be the center of attention<\/a> anymore!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Laura Cavanaugh \/ UPI Photo Service\/Newscom\/The Mega Agency<\/p>\n

But the fact that the actor\u2019s now keeping close confidants like Nicholson, 89, and Hoffman, 88, at bay has raised some concern<\/a>, says the source.<\/p>\n

In the 1970s, Beatty was so tight with his The Fortune costar that he moved to LA\u2019s Mulholland Drive to be nearer to Nicholson, per ScreenRant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The street was allegedly nicknamed \u201cBad Boy Drive,\u201d thanks to the famous buddies.<\/p>\n

\u201cJack and Warren have been best friends for the better part of their adult lives,\u201d notes the source.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Hoffman affectionately recalls meeting Beatty in the 1960s at a Baskin Robbins, an origin story which was revealed as he presented his longtime ally with an AFI Life Achievement Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Years after they fatefully crossed paths, the men shared the screen<\/a> in Ishtar and Dick Tracy.<\/p>\n

Despite his current, self-imposed seclusion, \u201cWarren remains a North Star for Jack and Dustin,\u201d says the source. \u201cHe\u2019s the peer they will always look up to.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman Have \u2018Barely Seen\u2019 Friend Warren Beatty Over the Last Year: \u2018So Reclusive\u2019<\/a> first appeared on Closer Weekly<\/a>. Follow Closer Weekly on Yahoo<\/a> so you don\u2019t miss what\u2019s coming next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For more than five decades, Warren Beatty shared a close bond with Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[117238,227673,430,93487,156,15191,23949,111,139,69,97125],"class_list":["post-451913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-annette-bening","tag-bonnie-and-clyde","tag-celebrities","tag-dustin-hoffman","tag-entertainment","tag-jack-nicholson","tag-mega","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-warren-beatty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}