Two-time Oscar-winning actor Michael Cain he has a career spanning 77 years. Starting in 1946 with a small, uncredited role at the age of 13, he began acting steadily in film and TV ten years later, never slowing down. With 175 acting credits to his name, he has made the roles he has played famous Alfio (1966), Italian work (1969), Investigator (1972), Beyond the limit (1984), Educate Rita (1984), Hannah and her sisters (1986), Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1990), The cider house rules (2000), The quiet American (2003), The prestige (2006), The dark Knight (2008), Start (2010), Now you see Me (2013), Interstellar (2014), Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), Principle (2020) and many more.
But when the actor reached the milestone of his 90th birthday this year, he announced his official retirement. He made the decree on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, explaining: “I keep saying I’m going to retire. Well, I am now. He previously suggested his retirement was imminent in an interview with The Telegraph last month, saying he was “in a sense” retired.
Caine reflected on his career success and the parts he is likely to be offered at his age, saying: “I thought, I have a movie where I play the lead character and it got incredible reviews. The only parts I’m probably going to get now are older men, 90-year-old men, maybe 85. And I thought, “Well, I might as well walk away with all this, I have wonderful reviews.” What do I have to do to defeat him?’”
He added: “There are no protagonists at 90, you will have young and beautiful boys and girls.”
However, he finds value in older people being represented on screen: “With me, it’s not as diminished as you think,” he explained. “I remember when I was young talking to 90-year-olds and they were nothing like me. They were little old men with hunched shoulders… And I thought, I’m not like that and it’s changed.
His final screen appearance is in Oliver Parker’s “The Great Escaper,” a biopic about World War II veteran Bernard Jordan who escapes from a nursing home to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of D-Day in 2014. The film was released in theaters in October. 6th.
via: Variety
by Jessica Fisher
Source: Geek Tyrant
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