At 88 years old and mired in increasingly intense mobility problems, the actor Michael Caine He has taken for granted that, unless it is a small and physically demanding role, his withdrawal from the world of cinema is practically a reality that needs no confirmation.
In his own words, his retirement is “more or less” assumed by everyone who knows him and by himself, although until recently he still received interesting scripts that, however, he had to reject.
In conversation with the newspaper The Guardian, the legendary interpreter and protagonist of titles such as “Alfie” and “The Italian Job” has revealed that one of his last characters would have led him to have to escape from a group of criminals who wanted to end his life. Logically, the artist had to decline the offer because his age and fragility prevent him from walking and, therefore, going out for a run.
“I can’t walk, much less run. I’m more or less done with movies. I have shot about 150, I think I have already done too many ”, has pointed out bluntly in his interview.
FRIENDS WHO CAME AHEAD
The movie star has also lamented that so many of his contemporaries on the big screen have already passed away, regardless of the fact that he has more than assimilated that death is an inexorable law of any passage through the world.
“My generation is leaving, all my friends are disappearing little by little. It is that we are already very old. Roger Moore, Sean Connery… They are two of my best friends who have already left ”, has remembered with a mixture of nostalgia and melancholy.
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