‘NYSMNYD’ Star Morgan Freeman Only Wants to Do This Once When Working With New Actors

Morgan Freeman has been in the business for a minute. The Academy Award-winning actor has shaken many hands throughout his illustrious six-decade career. So, for any young actors working with him now, he’s got one simple rule.

“Never touch me again,” he exclaimed.

Okay, that does need further explanation.

“That’s just for shaking hands—you meet them, ask how it’s going, say ‘Good to see you here’ and welcome and all that stuff,” he elaborated to EBONY during an interview for his latest film, Now You See Me, Now You Don’t.

And once those pleasantries are out of the way: “Never touch me again,” he quipped with a laugh.

That quip is totally in line with his mystical alter ego Thaddeus Bradley, who is back in this third installment of the popular heist-thriller, illusionist-centric franch