He is 90 years old and has more than 130 films. The English interpreter Michael Caine says goodbye to cinema after the premiere of The Great Escaper. “SI keep saying that I’m going to retire. Well now I am“, he said on BBC radio’s ‘Today’ programme. In her latest film she stars with the remembered actress and politician Glenda Jackson. “I realized, I had a movie in which I played the lead role and it got incredible reviews… What am I going to do to get over this?” Responded the Oscar winner for Hannah and Her Sisters and House Rules. the Cider.
The actor has repeated that his body “can’t do any more” and says goodbye playing Bernard Jordan, in real life, a pensioner veteran of the Second World War who in 2014 escaped from the residence where he was staying to attend the D-Day anniversary celebrations in France. He escaped
dressed in a suit and with his war medals and, after his search, he was a kind of celebrity.
“Although the film was shot in the fall of last year, Glenda Jackson was not able to see it finished. The post-production process of The Great Escaper and its release have been slowed down by the jam of film releases due to the stoppage of confinement in 2020. The Great Escaper houses a few nods to Caine’s career: it features one of his best friends since the fifties of the 20th century, John Standing, also named Sir and a year younger than Caine (who imposed him in the cast), and the German Wolf Kahler. The three coincided in 1976 in The Eagle Has Arrived, about the plot to kidnap Winston Churchill in the middle of the Second World War,” El País maintains.
The Great Escaper. Film directed by Oliver Parker. Photo: diffusion
When beginning the promotion of what would be his last film, Michael Caine had already said that he could leave acting to take care of his physique. “I’m about f… 90 years old and I can barely walk straight, so I’m almost retired,” he told the English press. “The only roles I can get now are 90-year-old men. Or maybe 85″, he joked in the interview with ‘Today’. “You don’t have leading characters at 90 years old. They want young, handsome boys and girls. So I thought, ‘I better get out of here.'”
However, the actor now reveals that he turned down a role after filming The Great Escaper. “They actually sent me a script, I looked at it and then I did something I’d never done before. I counted how many pages it had, compared to the number of pages in the script.” It was about a character who had 15 sheets of dialogue and the text, in total, 99. I thought: ‘I think that counts as a small part, I’m not going to do it.’ So I backed out… I thought, ‘I’m ahead here, I might play a small role and get a bad review…’. So I thought, ‘why not leave now?’ So I left”.
British media, such as The Guardian, describe it as “one of the best known and loved British film stars of the last 60 years”. He has appeared in more than a hundred films, including Zulu, Alfie, The Italian Job, Sleuth and Christopher Nolan’s Batman: The Dark Knight.
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