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How old is Rick Moranis and is he making a comeback?
HONEY, I Shrunk The Kids star Rick Moranis has returned to screens after a 13-year acting hiatus.
The actor stepped away from Hollywood in the nineties to focus on his children after his wife died.
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How old is Rick Moranis?
Moranis is 67 years old.
He was born April 18, 1963, and raised in , Canada.
Is he making a comeback?
The actor confirmed in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in 2017 that he has not retired from the big screen, but he is being more selective about the roles he takes on.
With that said, Moranis featureds in an advertisement for Mint Mobile, a phone plan company owned by actor .
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“It’s hard to believe that Mint Mobile has gone so long without an unlimited plan. So, to introduce it, we brought in an actor we’ve all gone too long without: Rick Moranis,” Reynolds declares in the commercial.
"So, what do you want me to do? You want me to say something about Mint?" Moranis asks the Deadpool star.
Reynolds declines.
“So why am I here?" asks Moranis, to which Reynolds simply responds: “I’m a huge fan.”
Moranis’s last on-screen acting role was in 2007, for the Bob & Doug McKenzie's Two-Four Anniversary TV special.
Why did he take an acting hiatus?
Moranis stepped away from the big screen after his wife, costume designer Ann Belsky, tragically died from breast cancer in 1991.
He said he wanted to focus on their children, Mitchell and Rachel.
"I pulled out of making movies in about 96 or 97," he told in 2005.
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"I'm a single parent, and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies.
"So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn’t miss it."
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Moranis's appearance in the commercial in September 2020 was met with delight from fans on social media.
Reynolds himself tweeted that he "wept" when Moranis agreed to do the commerical.
He will reportedly return to screens as Wayne Szalinski in a sequel to Honey, I Shrunk The Kids and Honey, I blew Up The Kid later in 2020.
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