Michael Caine says he’s quitting acting after making a fake claim in 2021
Michael Caine, an Oscar-winning actor, finally decided to stop acting after a long and successful career that spanned over 60 years and over 130 movies. Caine, who turned 90 this year, says he’s done with lead parts and is happy to end his playing career on a high note after getting great reviews for his most recent role as the lead in Oliver Parker’s The Great Escaper.
“I think it would be a good idea to retire before they say, ‘He’s too old for the part!'” It was a joke that Caine told on BBC Radio this week. The British star with a lot of experience says he never planned to stop because he has lied about retiring.
While Caine is about to turn 40, he thinks it’s time for him to stop playing parts in movies for good.
“I think I’ve made 150 movies.” And I think that’s enough. “Acting jobs for a 90-year-old lead aren’t exactly coming in thick and fast,” he said in a practical way. Critics have praised Caine’s last big leading role, The Great Escaper, which comes out in 2022, as a touching possible farewell that gets one last great performance from the talented actor.
Caine became well-known for his parts in the 1964 movies Zulu and The Ipcress File. With movies like Alfie, Gambit, and The Italian Job, he became a true hero of British film in the 1960s. He showed dramatic range and charm in both comedies and horrors.
Over the next few decades, he had a lot of success with roles in movies like Sleuth, Educating Rita, Hannah and Her Sisters, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Little Voice, The Cider House Rules, and The Quiet American. For Hannah and Her Sisters and The Cider House Rules, he won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
Even in his winter years, Caine kept getting important supporting and minor parts in big studio movies like Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight series, Inception, and Tenet. This showed that he was still a captivating and powerful screen actor.
But Caine knew that his days as a leading man were numbered. He is now ready to quit, even though he is still getting praise for his role in The Great Escaper.
“I had a wonderful time. He finally quit, “I think it would be a good idea to retire and see what happens,” said he. The experienced star will still be busy because he is finishing his third book. In the 1980s and 1990s, he published two diaries. Caine loves to write, and his next book, the thriller Deadly Game, is set to come out this November.
Michael Caine’s six-decade career has cemented his place in the annals of British film. Fans will understand why the popular actor chose to end his career on a high note, even though it seemed like he would never really retire.
The applause for The Great Escaper is still fresh in his ears. Caine has been one of the most famous actors in the business, playing roles from Zulu’s Corporal to Nolan’s Alfred. He has been in many of the most memorable movies and scenes.