It’s Friday the 13th and Jeff Goldblum is avoiding strange tidings.

“Take it easy today,” Goldblum states matter of factly over the phone. He’s got a full slate of interviews to promote his new show, and it’s on the same day he released a single and fresh artwork for his upcoming jazz album. “Not that I’m superstitious,” he continues. “Not even a little bit. That’s all nonsense. Absolute nonsense. No, I go with science.”

If there’s a formula to having a long and satisfying career in the limelight, Goldblum deserves an honorary PhD for tinkering with the optimal compounds. The 66-year-old actor is closing in on five decades of film work; from classics like The Fly, Independence Day, and Jurassic Park to more recent hits like The Grand Budapest Hotel and Thor: Ragnarok. Instead of retreating into the Hollywood Hills to enjoy his spoils, Goldblum is jet-setting. More specifically, his artistic endeavors recently landed him in Palm Springs where he was playing piano on a platform in the middle of a pool at Frank Sinatra’s former estate, Twin Palms.

“I thought, ‘I don’t know if they’re ever going to get this piano in that pool, but I’ll be a ring-tailed monkey if it didn’t happen,’” Goldblum says of his album promotional shoot. “Then we fooled around and got those shots. I wonder what Frank Sinatra would think of that?”