Legendary star Steve Martin reveals plans to retire from acting

Steve Martin has announced he might retire from acting after Only Murder in the Building concludes.

The comedy legend recently sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to tease his retirement plans.

While discussing his ongoing, You Won't Believe What They Look Like Today! tour with his co-star Martin Short, he said: "We were very happy just doing the live show.

"There may be a natural end to that — somebody gets sick, somebody just wears out — but I wouldn't do it without Marty.

"When this television show is done, I'm not going to seek others.

"I'm not going to seek other movies. I don't want to do cameos. This is, weirdly, it."

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However, if you ask Martin’s wife, she has a different story.

“My wife keeps saying, ‘You always say you’re going to retire and then you always come up with something',” he admitted.

“I’m really not interested in retiring. I’m not. But I would just work a little less. Maybe.”

Currently, the former Saturday Night Live actor stars in Hulu’s critically acclaimed series, Only Murders in the Building, where he plays Charles-Haden Savage.

Savage is a semi-retired actor who begins a true crime podcast investigating a death that occurred in his Upper West Side apartment building.

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The actor revealed that when the script first landed in his lap, he agreed to be apart of the series on three conditions: if Short also starred, filming would take place in New York, and he could be home every night by six.

The first two requests were accepted; however, Martin said the last demand ‘didn’t work out’.

Martin and Short first graced the screen together in the 1986 film The Three Amigos alongside Chevy Chase.

While shooting the movie, they both admitted to The Guardian they soon realized they had found ‘a comedy soulmate’.

“You know, you make movies and you’re in each other’s lives for a few months, in Yugoslavia or wherever, and then you never see each other again. But Steve and I made each other laugh, and we’re clowns, so that’s a big seductive element. That created a determination to see each other, and then have dinners, and that evolved into taking family vacations together,” Short said.

To which Martin quipped: "Marty just kept following me."

Short continued to joke that even when the comedy legend tried to distance himself, he never gave in.

He said: “Every time he changed his number, I found the new one!”

The first two episodes of Only Murders in the Building season three are currently streaming on Hulu and Disney+.