Rick Moranis makes rare Comic-Con appearance for big-screen comeback after 30-year break from Hollywood
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I was just negotiating,' he said, per Page Six.Truth be told, Moranis stepped away from onscreen acting in the mid-1990s to raise his two children after his wife, Ann Belsky, died of cancer. He was seen strolling in New York City by himself in March. Moranis, 73, received a standing ovation the moment he walked on the famous Hall H stage 'I really wasn’t retired.
- ▪I was just negotiating,' he said, per Page Six.Truth be told, Moranis stepped away from onscreen acting in the mid-1990s to raise his two children after his wife, Ann Belsky, died of cancer.
- ▪He was seen strolling in New York City by himself in March.
- ▪Moranis, 73, received a standing ovation the moment he walked on the famous Hall H stage 'I really wasn’t retired.
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- ▪ Rick Moranis ends retirement with surprise Comic-Con appearance for ‘Spaceballs 2’ — NBC News — Top
- ▪ Rick Moranis jokes he never ‘retired’ in rare Comic-Con appearance — New York Post
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Rick Moranis made a special appearance at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday to promote the long-awaited sequel Spaceballs: The New One, which marks his first live-action movie in almost 30 years.The rarely seen funny man, who reprises his role as the Darth Vader parody character Dark Helmet, received a standing ovation the moment he walked on the famous Hall H stage.Once the applause finally died down, Moranis joined his co-stars Josh Gad, Keke Palmer, Daphne Zuniga and Lewis Pullman for a panel discussion about the film and how he came to be in it.Moranis, 73, whose last movie was 1997’s Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, even joked about his decades-long break from Hollywood, saying he never 'retired.''I really wasn’t retired.
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