For almost a decade, Christopher Guest has been “essentially retired,” the actor/director reveals in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now . After he directed Mascots for Netflix in 2016, he recalls the streamer telling him they’d make any film he wanted — but he didn’t have an idea for one.  ”I go hiking and I walk in rivers and I ski,” says Guest, who’s been married to Jamie Lee Curtis since 1984. “And I do that and I play music every single day. So I have this life and I thought, ‘I think I really like this.’ … I don’t have an idea for a movie, and I might not ever. I don’t know.”

But Guest made an exception when it came to returning as Nigel Tufnel for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (due in theaters Sept. 12). “ When we got together, we made each other laugh,” says Gu

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