Morgan Freeman, 87, makes a rare appearance as he steps out for dinner at Giorgio Baldi’s in Los Angeles

The actor wore a plaid button-down shirt and baseball cap as he stepped out at the celebrity-loved Italian eatery in Santa Monica, California

Morgan Freeman enjoying a night on the town!

The 87-year-old actor made a rare appearance on Sunday, Nov. 24, stepping out for a dinner engagement with loved ones in Los Angeles.

Freeman wore a check button-up shirt, dark trousers and a baseball cap when he was snapped outside the celebrity-loved Italian eatery Giorgio Baldi in the city’s Santa Monica neighborhood.

The Academy Award The winner also wore a cream-colored compression glove, which he has been open about using as a result of nerve damage he suffered in a 2008 car accident.

“It’s the fibromyalgia,” Freeman told me Esquire during an interview published in July 2012. “Up and down the arm. That’s where it gets so bad. Excruciating.”

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Despite his limited public appearances, Freeman continues to appear frequently, having appeared in two films in 2024: My dead friend Zoe and Gunner.

The actor will also appear next year in Now you see me 3as part of a star-studded cast that also includes Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Ariana Greenblatt, Lizzy Caplan, Isla Fisher, Rosamund Pike, Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa and Dave Franco.

While Lionsgate has not confirmed the official plotline for Now you see me 3the second film ended with a major revelation about the leader of the eye, so it is likely that the third film could pick up after that and show how the four horsemen (Eisenberg, 41, Harrelson, 63, Fisher, 48, and Franco, 39) have been dealing with their new roles in the secret society.

Recordings for Now you see me 3 ended on November 18 with a caption on the films official Instagram account reads, “Your eyes are not deceiving you. It’s a wrap on the next installment of #NowSerMe — will be in theaters on November 14, 2025. .”

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Meanwhile, Freeman recently hung out with other screen legend Clint Eastwood in California when he presented his friend with an award at the 2024 Monterey Jazz Festival in late September.

Freeman and his producing partner Lori McCreary shared a photo with Instagram of the actors posing together on October 14, along with which Freeman wrote: “It was a great pleasure to present my friend, Clint Eastwood, with the first Clint Eastwood Award for Cultural Leadership at @MontereyJazzFestival last weekend.”

“Clint is a true musician: pianist, composer and a jazz lover!” he continued in the caption. “We had a wonderful time listening to the incredible music of Kyle Eastwood and Mavis Staples!”

Freeman and Eastwood, 94, go way back; the pair starred in Eastwood’s 1992 Western Unforgivenand they reunite again on screen in Eastwood’s 2004 boxing drama Million Dollar Baby. Eastwood directed Freeman once again in the 2009s Invictuswhere Freeman portrayed the late South African president Nelson Mandela.