“Now I’m 90 years old and I can’t walk normally and all that (…), “I’m retired now,” actor Michael Caine told him. to the international media The Telegraph in an interview. After a 73-year career in the world of the seventh artfrom his first fleeting participation in the film Morning departure In 1950, this English-born film star seems to be satisfied with his work.

If this statement is true, it would be his last appearance on film and screen The great fugitivewith actress Glenda Jackson, who died last June.

This movie is scheduled to be released on October 6th in England, and is based on the true story of Bernard Jordan, a veteran royal navy who disappeared from his nursing home at the age of 89 to travel to France to attend an event important to him, sparking a police manhunt that turned him into a media sensation.

With a long and fruitful career, and after seeing his two daughters grow up from two marriages, the actor claims to be very happy about his next production. “I liked the character of Bernie (Bernard). I thought it was amazing and very well written. With Covid and all that, I hadn’t made a film in three years and I thought I was done. Suddenly I did it and it was wonderful,” he said.

He also adds that it was a physically difficult role because today he cannot walk without help“they gave me a very good stick and I was able to do the scenes I needed.”

The Ecuadorian short film ‘Escopaestesia’, selected by the Florianópolis Audiovisual Mercosur Festival, will be screened tomorrow in Brazil

Internationally successful and known for his versatility in a number of leading roles, Caine appeared in more than 120 films and by the 1970s had become a star.

He was nominated for an Oscar six times and won it twice. as the best supporting actor: the first time for the role of Elliot in a Woody Allen comedy, Hannah and her sisters, 1986, and the second for the role of Dr. Wilbur Larch in the drama directed by Lasse Hallström, Cider house rules, 1999 (E)