Michael Caine:I will still go on acting even when ...
Michael Caine:I will still go on acting even when a director has to tell someone: OK, wheel him in
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Now a sprightly 75, Michael Caine has been churning out movies - many of them huge international hits - for five decades.
He has played soldiers, spies, womanisers, gangsters - and even Batman's faithful butler, a role he reprises in his 110th film, The Dark Knight, due for UK release next month.
The macabre new Batman movie has long had film buffs dribbling in anticipation, but since the tragic death of Michael's co-star Heath Ledger it is guaranteed to be a piece of poignant cinematic history.
Today in an exclusive interview with The People, Caine talks in his trademark no-nonsense fashion about his true feelings towards 28-year-old Ledger, his own battles with the dark side... and why he will go on acting until he has to be "wheeled" on to the movie set.
Sitting in a cafe in London's Soho, Michael - or more properly Sir Michael, as he was knighted in 2000 - clearly has Heath on his mind.
The young Australian, lauded for his role in Brokeback Mountain, died in his New York apartment in January. He had accidentally overdosed on prescription drugs.
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Caine, contemplating his co-star's loss, goes so far as to predict Ledger might win an Oscar from beyond the grave for his role as The Joker in The Dark Knight. "He was just so scary. Everyone was worried beforehand, because we knew he was going to be compared with Jack Nicholson's brilliant Joker in the 1989 Batman. He surprised the life out of us all."
"I have just finished a small budget British film called Is There Anybody There," he says. "The whole thing cost about the same as the catering on Dark Knight.
"It's a lovely story about a ten-year-old boy who lives in an old folks' home, owned by his mum and dad. Every time he gets to know an old person, they die. An old magician comes in to die - me - and I help him start looking for their ghosts. It's a warm and funny film, but I ended up in tears after I read the script."
He gives another smile. "So long as I can still get turned on by stories like that, there's life in the old dog yet.
"That's the joy of this job. I will still be working, even when someone has to be told 'Okay, wheel him in'
He has played soldiers, spies, womanisers, gangsters - and even Batman's faithful butler, a role he reprises in his 110th film, The Dark Knight, due for UK release next month.
The macabre new Batman movie has long had film buffs dribbling in anticipation, but since the tragic death of Michael's co-star Heath Ledger it is guaranteed to be a piece of poignant cinematic history.
Today in an exclusive interview with The People, Caine talks in his trademark no-nonsense fashion about his true feelings towards 28-year-old Ledger, his own battles with the dark side... and why he will go on acting until he has to be "wheeled" on to the movie set.
Sitting in a cafe in London's Soho, Michael - or more properly Sir Michael, as he was knighted in 2000 - clearly has Heath on his mind.
The young Australian, lauded for his role in Brokeback Mountain, died in his New York apartment in January. He had accidentally overdosed on prescription drugs.
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Caine, contemplating his co-star's loss, goes so far as to predict Ledger might win an Oscar from beyond the grave for his role as The Joker in The Dark Knight. "He was just so scary. Everyone was worried beforehand, because we knew he was going to be compared with Jack Nicholson's brilliant Joker in the 1989 Batman. He surprised the life out of us all."
"I have just finished a small budget British film called Is There Anybody There," he says. "The whole thing cost about the same as the catering on Dark Knight.
"It's a lovely story about a ten-year-old boy who lives in an old folks' home, owned by his mum and dad. Every time he gets to know an old person, they die. An old magician comes in to die - me - and I help him start looking for their ghosts. It's a warm and funny film, but I ended up in tears after I read the script."
He gives another smile. "So long as I can still get turned on by stories like that, there's life in the old dog yet.
"That's the joy of this job. I will still be working, even when someone has to be told 'Okay, wheel him in'
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