Freeman next appeared alongside an ensemble cast in George Gallo’s crime comedy The Comeback Trail (2020) and in Coming 2 America (2021), a sequel to the 1988 film.[172] On November 20, 2022, Freeman performed with Ghanim Al-Muftah at the opening ceremony of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.[173][174] In 2021 he took a guest starring role acting opposite Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin in the Netflix comedy The Kominsky Method for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.[175] Since 2023 he has portrayed a United States Secretary of State in the Taylor Sheridan created Paramount+ spy thriller series Lioness starring Nicole Kidman and Zoe Saldaña.[176] Freeman stated he joined the show due to Sheridan telling TV Insider, “I’m so enamored of him and his work. He’s so prolific, and it’s always good.”[177]
2025–present: Later work
Freeman returned to the heist franchise acting in Now You See Me: Now You Don’t which was released in November 2025. It marks his first theatrical release in several years.[178] Speaking about the possibility of retiring, Freeman said: “Sometimes the idea of retirement would float past me but, as soon as my agent says there’s a job or somebody wants you or they’ve made an offer, the whole thing just boils back into where it was yesterday. ‘how much you’re going to pay, where we’re gonna be?’ The appetite is still there. I will concede that it’s dimmed a little. But not enough to make a serious difference.”[179]
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