The actor has four other children Jesse Johnson, 38, whose mother is model Patti D’Arbanville, and three kids with his current wife Kelley Phleger, 21-year-old daughter Grace and two sons Jasper, 19, and Deacon, 15. They first married in 1976 in Las Vegas after getting engaged on Melanie's 18th birthday, but split six months later. "And I got pretty good at working with the wild cats."Īlong with the lions and the tigers, Melanie and Don raised their daughter, actress Dakota Johnson, 32, after they were married for the second time in 1989. The show starred the effortlessly cool Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as the incredibly fashionable Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs, two drug-busting cops working in a sunny, beachy. But yeah, we would would raise them, bottle feed them and then move them over to regular cat food. "And when they get to be teenagers, which is around six months old, then we would take them out to the reserve. Probably between Melanie and I, we hand raised 20 or 30 lions and tigers. He also reminisced about how he and his ex-wife Melanie Griffith - who he met when he was 22 and she was 14 while on set of ‘The Harrad Project’ in 1972 - would rear big cats with Melanie’s mother Tippi Hedren, the star of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’, and they “hand raised” roughly “20 or 30 lions and tigers".ĭon said: “We hand raised those lions and tigers. However, the ‘Watchman’ star did know that his looks, namely being “too pretty”, was something that he “vowed to overcome”. There were a lot of things I was not aware of.” and their extended team through the mean streets of Miami. Some years were pretty good, but you know, like Georgia raft, I p***** it away on women, booze and horses. Resplendent with authentic 1980s music, fashion and vibe, Miami Vice follows two. He said: “I was a working actor and struggled along for some years, making well under the national poverty level. The ‘Knives Out’ star admitted that throughout his career - until he got his big break - he went through periods of great financial difficulty and wanted to leave Hollywood because he had no money after he had “p***** it away on women, booze and horses”. He said: “I was thinking about, ‘Well, I don’t know what I’m going to do but I gotta do something’, and then I got Miami Vice’ and everything changed.” Speaking on the SiriusXM's 'The Jess Cagle Podcast with Julia Cunningham', he said: “And well, with the business quitting me."īut after Don was cast in the cop show “everything changed”. The ‘Nash Bridges’ star admitted that when was cast in the programme he “was thinking about quitting the business".
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The 71-year-old actor starred in the TV show - which ran for five seasons between 1984 to 1989 - as Detective James ‘Sonny’ Crockett, the partner of Detective Ricardo Tubbs, played by Philip Michael Thomas, 72. Don Johnson was ready to quit acting before he landed his iconic role in 'Miami Vice'.
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