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15-10-2021, 09:44 PM
Sir Michael Caine announces retirement from acting
Citing a spinal problem and a lack of film offers at the age of 88, actor has called it a day
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The British cinema icon is best-know for The Italian Job and more recently Dark Knight movies as Batman’s butler Alfred Pennyworth. And now at 88-years-old, Sir Michael Caine has announced his retirement from acting. The film legend has one more movie to go and then that’s probably it, he says, due to health problems and a lack of offers.
Speaking with Kermode and Mayo's Film Review on BBC Radio 5 Live, Caine said: “Funnily enough, it has turned out to be what is my last part really.
“Because I haven’t worked for two years, and I have a spine problem which affects my legs so I can’t walk very well, so…”
The 88-year-old also pointed out he’s more of a writer than an actor nowadays having published his 2018 memoir Blowing The Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life.
He has admitted his health is going downhill so not entirely unexpected. I hope we see him in more films though.
The likes of Sir Michael Caine, Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen and Dame Maggie Smith and other older actors are living legends.
Thoughts?
Citing a spinal problem and a lack of film offers at the age of 88, actor has called it a day
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/09/30/08/48581089-10044557-image-m-28_1632987544342.jpg
The British cinema icon is best-know for The Italian Job and more recently Dark Knight movies as Batman’s butler Alfred Pennyworth. And now at 88-years-old, Sir Michael Caine has announced his retirement from acting. The film legend has one more movie to go and then that’s probably it, he says, due to health problems and a lack of offers.
Speaking with Kermode and Mayo's Film Review on BBC Radio 5 Live, Caine said: “Funnily enough, it has turned out to be what is my last part really.
“Because I haven’t worked for two years, and I have a spine problem which affects my legs so I can’t walk very well, so…”
The 88-year-old also pointed out he’s more of a writer than an actor nowadays having published his 2018 memoir Blowing The Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life.
He has admitted his health is going downhill so not entirely unexpected. I hope we see him in more films though.
The likes of Sir Michael Caine, Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen and Dame Maggie Smith and other older actors are living legends.
Thoughts?