With a back catalogue of 175 productions in a career that’s lasted 77 years,seen him win two Oscars (for Hannah and Her Sisters in 1986 and for The Cider House Rules in 1999), been awarded a BAFTA Fellowship and a knighthood it is little surprise that Sir Michael Caine retires at 90 years of age.
The actor has hinted at it for many years but he has now announced via the BBC that he is formally retiring and its all due to a lack of leading roles coming his way. ‘I’ve figured, I’ve had a picture where I’ve played the lead and had incredible reviews … What am I going to do that will beat this?” he told the BBC Today programme. Adding, ‘ The only parts I’m liable to get now are 90-year-old men. Or maybe 85. They’re not going to be the lead. You don’t have leading men at 90, you’re going to have young handsome boys and girls. So I thought, I might as well leave with all this’
What perhaps prompted him further was a recent script offer. “I was sent a script actually, and I looked at it, and then I did something I’ve never done before. I counted how many pages I had, compared to the number of pages in the script,” he explained. “And it was 15 [pages of dialogue] in a script which was 99 pages. And I thought, I think that counts as a small part, I’m not doing it. So I retired.”
His last film is The Great Escaper opposite the late great Glenda Jackson and the star acknowledged he turned down his last film three times before finally saying yes, because he already considered himself retired.
It may well be that Sir Michael Caine retires at 90 but the actor is also due to publish a novel next month, a thriller titled ‘Deadly Game’.
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