Actor Nick Nolte, 83, evokes his infamous wild-haired 2002 mugshot as he is noticed trying matted out and about in Malibu

It was probably the most infamous superstar mugshot of all time – Nick Nolte gazing into the digital camera together with his hair flying wildly in all instructions as he sported a vivid Hawaiian shirt after being booked for driving underneath the affect of GHB in 2002.

Again within the day, the Prince of Tides star quipped that he resembled ‘an asylum inmate out for a lark’ within the shot, snapped throughout a chaotic period of his life when he was taking the social gathering drug every single day. 

Quick-forward 22 years, and the 83-year-old former motion man until appears unnervingly just like that infamous noughties picture. 

In images completely obtained by DailyMail.com, Nolte wears the identical lost-in-thought expression beneath a furrowed forehead and a wild unruly silver mane that spirals in all instructions. 

He even sported a equally loose-fitting shirt – solely this time it was stable lilac – with the cuffs unbuttoned and splayed vast.

He was photographed this time as he emerged from a flashy black Lincoln sports activities automotive in his leafy Malibu neighborhood. 

The actor now lives a reclusive life out of the highlight with fourth spouse, actress Clytie Lane, as they increase a 16-year-old daughter collectively within the beachside California metropolis. 

He is no stranger to his chaotic historical past although, as he detailed the arrest which led to his 2002 mugshot in his 2018 autobiography. 

In a lesser-known incident 40 years earlier and earlier than he discovered fame, he was busted for promoting faux draft playing cards in 1961. He was fined $75,000 and sentenced to 75 years in jail, later suspended.

In that reserving picture, he appears the epitome of conformity, carrying his hair brief and a button-down shirt. 

‘I’ve had two mug photographs in my lifetime,’ Omaha-born Nolte mentioned in 2018. 

‘It is onerous to get these. And for those who get them, you higher be sure you look at the circumstances that you simply bought them.

‘One of the best ways to take care of the largest errors in your life is to debate them. With everyone, together with God.’ 

Nolte described how he had taken GHB, brief for Gamma Hydroxybutyrate, on September 11, 2002, earlier than going to the fitness center and an Alcoholics Nameless (AA) assembly, the incident which led to his reserving that 12 months.  

As soon as the Gangster Squad star bought to the AA assembly, which was being held at a church close to his residence in Malibu, the consequences kicked in and he felt he needed to depart.

‘I used to be a multitude and driving on the Pacific Coast Freeway,’ he wrote in his memoir detailing the arrest, including that he had been taking the drug every single day for 4 years on the time.

‘I’m informed six drivers referred to as 911 to report a giant sedan weaving on the improper facet of the highway.’

Nolte was finally arrested and brought to an space hospital for blood exams, the place he agreed when an officer requested if he may snap a photograph of the Nightwatch star.

His autobiography, Insurgent: My Life Outdoors the Traces, traces the rise of the headstrong actor – actually, as a result of he had a weird behavior of head-butting parked vehicles.

He was a Midwestern boy, a pure jock, who discovered fame later in life when he traded in acting on the stage to films.

Nolte beforehand linked his profession to his chaotic character, telling AP that appearing ‘at all times appealed’ to him as a result of it concerned ‘danger taking’. 

‘I imply after I’m standing backstage and that curtain is about to open I say, ‘Why would you do that to your self? Are you actually that a lot of an fool to simply expose your self to a thousand folks?” he mentioned.

‘After which the curtain opens and, if it goes all proper, you do not bear in mind opening evening – there’s an excessive amount of adrenaline. Actors are danger takers. And so they’re taking the dangers for their very own sanity.’

The curtains have not but closed on Nolte’s storied profession, as he is quickly set to seem as a infamous assassin within the upcoming film The Ploughmen, starring alongside Invoice Murray and Owen Teague as legislation enforcement officers. 

Directed by Ed Harris and primarily based on a 2014 novel by Kim Zupan, the neo-noir crime thriller follows a wierd friendship between a younger deputy sheriff performed by Teague and Nolte’s villain. 

It’s set to be filmed within the Montana wilderness this fall. 

Nolte additionally lately guest-starred in an episode of Poker Face, the brand new whodunit collection on Peacock starring Natasha Lyonne as an beginner detective who can at all times inform when somebody is mendacity.

The Golkden Globe winner may even reunite together with his co-star from The Deep, Jacqueline Bisset, 78, together with German actor Oliver Masucci, 54, in new PBS drama Shelter Me. 

The plot follows a man-made intelligence analysis scientist who develops a distant monitoring system that exposes private struggles, weaknesses and strengths through the isolation induced the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Nolte was final seen brushing his shoulder-length hair away from his face as he went to go to a good friend in Malibu in March this 12 months. 

He was additionally noticed carrying a vibrant yellow button-down shirt and inexperienced gingham patterned pants whereas on an informal grocery run the month earlier than. 

Nolte pushed round his purchases in a small cart earlier than driving off and having fun with the remainder of the day.

The outing got here simply months after the previous motion man addressed his on-set tensions with Julia Roberts throughout I Love Hassle, a movie they shot practically 30 years in the past.

Nolte was reminded that Roberts blasted his alleged crude conduct as ‘disgusting’ again within the 90’s – and he revealed they by no means repaired their rift. 

When requested whether or not he ever prolonged an olive department he mentioned: ‘No, I have never’, including that the entire affair had been ‘buried’. 

Their feud got here whereas they have been capturing the 1994 film, by which they playrival newspaper reporters in Chicago. 

Round midway by means of manufacturing of the romantic-comedy crime movie, Roberts publicly aired their tensions by calling Nolte ‘fully disgusting’ throughout a December 1993 interview with the New York Occasions.   

‘From the second I met him we type of gave one another a tough time, and naturally we get on one another’s nerves,’ Roberts mentioned.

‘[While he can be] fully charming and really good, he is additionally fully disgusting,’ she added. 

‘He’ll hate me for saying this, however he appears to exit of his technique to repel folks. He is a kick.’ 

Nolte shot again on the Fairly Lady actress throughout an interview with the LA Occasions on the time saying: ‘It is not good to name somebody “disgusting”.

‘However she’s not a pleasant individual,’ he added. ‘Everybody is aware of that.’