“When I came on the first day of filming, we saw a beautiful actress there, but I asked where the director was. And she told me, “It’s me.” “My God, you should be starring in that movie, not directing it, you’re beautiful,” I told her.
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After all, when you see someone so beautiful, it occurs to you that he may not have great talent. But she’s really fantastic and she made a great movie, “Caine said at the beginning, giving an interview to Práva after the screening.
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You have made well over a hundred films, including Christopher Nolan’s “Batman” trilogy Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, Miss Roughneck, The Rules of the Cider House, and Kingsman: The Secret Service. Do you have some of the most popular among them?
I have. The man who wanted to be king, Alfie, from the recent Youth of Paolo Sorrento, for whom I received the European Film Award, but was ignored in England and America. I played a very classy man there, and I think I played him well with the beautiful English, but I didn’t get anything in it. And I got an Oscar for the Rules of the Cider House, but in England it had bad reviews.
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Do you like the man who wanted to be king because of Seann Connery?
Also, but a lot because of John Huston, who was a great friend of mine and an amazing director. There is no one like John. But there was no one like Sean either. We met when I was 22 years old in a London theater and we became lifelong friends.
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A big and famous project was Nolan’s three-part Batman. How do you remember him?
One of the strongest memories is related to casting. I was at the cottage then, it was Sunday and someone rang. I opened it, and there stood a man who introduced himself as a director. I invited him in, and he told me he wanted me to play Batman’s servant. I asked, “Servant? I’m going to announce dinner and ask who would like vodka? ”And he said no, that I was Batman’s godfather, so it’s a slightly bigger role …
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Jiří Bartoška, Michael Caine and his wife Shakira Caine.
Photo: Petr Hloušek, Právo
The filming was amazing then, except that I came to the square and we didn’t understand anything in the scene we were supposed to shoot. I didn’t know anything about Batman, and I asked what was going on around me. The director replied that he would explain everything to me when I played it.
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The full interview with Sir Michael Cain can be found in the Monday issue of Právo.
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