British acting icon Sir Michael Caine says he has “sort of retired” following his leading role in the new feature “The Great Escaper”.
Caine and the late Glenda Jackson co-star in the film, which is based on the true story of a WW2 veteran who engineered a ‘great escape’ from his care home in 2014 in order to attend the 70th anniversary of the D-Day Landings.
Caine has acted in films since the 1950s and became a household name from the 1960s onwards. In a new interview with The Telegraph, Caine says he “was so happy to do” the film.
However, he also acknowledges that he is aware this could be the end as he’s physically reaching a point where he can no longer do films like he used to:
“I am bloody 90 now, and I can’t walk properly and all that. I sort of am retired now.”
Caine has suggested retirement before, only to later appear in further films. However this marks the first, and so far only, film Caine has shot since the COVID pandemic began in early 2020. By comparison, he shot multiple films in 2019.
Speaking about his role, he says it helped remind him of why he loved doing this job:
“With Covid and all that, I hadn’t done a picture for three years, and I thought I was finished. And I suddenly did it – and had such a wonderful time.”
Caine’s credits are too numerous to mention but include famed films like “Zulu,” “The Ipcress File,” “Alfie,” “The Italian Job,” “Get Carter, The Man Who Would Be King,” “A Bridge Too Far,” “Dressed to Kill,” “Educating Rita,” “The Fourth Protocol,” “Hannah and Her Sisters,” “The Cider House Rules,” “Children of Men” and multiple films for Christopher Nolan.
