Michael Caine’s wife hates his new movie
Michael Caine’s new movie is striking a little too close to home. The actor’s wife of 36 years is refusing to let their pregnant daughter see “Is Anybody There?”
In the film, Michael, 76, plays a retired magician who is slowly dying of dementia in an old-age home in the 1980s.
The 76-year-old actor said: “(My wife) Shakira didn’t like it one bit. She explained how she felt to me the other day. I said to her, ‘But you have seen me die in lots of movies’. ‘No,’ she said, ‘I have only seen you killed in movies. In this movie you die as an old man’. It touched her.”
Despite his wife’s disapproval, Caine thinks this is among his best work.
“The performance in this film is the best I can possibly do. That’s the problem. That’s why it touched my wife,” said Caine. He recently lost a friend, his tailor Doug Howard, to the disease.
“I’d just spent five years watching somebody deal with it, so I knew exactly about Alzheimer’s and the confusion it causes. Douglas was my tailor – he wasn’t just my tailor.
“Basically he was my best friend who made my suits. When I was dying in the film, he was dying, so it was a very special time for me.”
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