Michael Caine’s newest film, ‘The Great Escaper,’ will be his last project as an actor
“Funny enough, I’d retired when I was sent the script, and I turned it down three times, but I kept falling in love with him every time I read it, and so I did it,” Caine, 90, said during a Saturday, October 14, appearance on BBC Radio 4’s “Today” program, while discussing his new film, The Great Escaper. “I kept saying I’m gonna retire. Well, I am now.”
Caine portrays World War II veteran Bernard “Bernie” Johnson in Oliver Parker’s Great Escaper, which is based on a true story. In the film, Bernie sneaks out of his nursing home in order to attend the 70th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, France. The movie, which was written by William Ivory, also stars the late Glenda Jackson.
Speaking with The Telegraph, Caine quipped that at the age of 90 “nobody expects you to do very much.”
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