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Sir Michael Caine is retiring from acting.
The 90-year-old actor confirmed his retirement — which comes after the Oct. 6 release of his latest, and now final, film The Great Escaper — in a new radio interview on Saturday.
"I keep saying I’m going to retire. Well, I am now,” Caine told BBC Radio 4’s Today show.
"I’ve figured, I’ve had a picture where I’ve played the lead and it’s got incredible reviews. The only parts I’m likely to get now are old men,” the acting legend explained. “…And I thought, well I might as well leave with all this — what have I got to do to beat this?”
Caine’s retirement announcement comes after he hinted at retiring in an interview with The Telegraph last month, where he discussed his new role in The Great Escaper, his age and said he was “sort of” retired.
Caine shared during his latest BBC Radio 4 interview that he believes it’s important old age is portrayed in movies, offering that as part of the reason he has kept acting up until now.
When asked if he would ever return to acting, Caine replied, “No. There’ll be writing. I’ll write another book sometime because I so enjoyed writing.”
Actors don’t write the scripts they perform. Actors do not believe the lines they say, they are not the people they portray. They are people getting paid to perform,
Acting is a job, and the vast majority of actors do not have the financial means to pick and chose.
I do not know the movie you are angry about, when was it made?
Where are you reading anger?
If you don’t see it in yourself, that is a bigger problem.
Over his career Mr Caine has appeared in 130 movies.
What were you hoping to achieve with your first comment by focusing on one role?
This person is just a troll, you can feel free to ignore them cause they’re only trying to get a reaction out of people.
I knew that, sometimes it is better to counter their bullshit with a couple of replies. Not that I expect them to admit their trolling but for others reading the thread.
What are you talking about?
People up and down this thread mentioning various roles of his.
You seem prickly about this one for some reason. Wonder why that is.
You brought it up out of no where for some reason. I assumed you were unhappy with it as well.
I brought up a role of dude’s in a thread where people where bringing up roles dude’s had.
The reason was we are discussing Michael Caine?