Michael Caine on Jonathan Ross: I started getting Oscars when I stopped getting leading roles

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Jennifer Ruby15 January 2016

Michael Caine has admitted that his career really started to take off when he stopped being cast as the leading man.

Speaking on The Jonathan Ross Show, the veteran star said that he thought his career had dried up when he hit 60 but it took a different turn.

“At 83, you don’t get many offers of leading parts in movies, you usually play grandpas," he said.

“I was about 60, 61 somewhere like that and I got a script and I read it and I sent it back to the producer saying the part is too small and he sent it back to me with a note saying, ‘I didn’t want you to play the lover, I wanted you to play the father’ and I thought uh oh, it’s over.

Interview: Michael Caine on Jonathan Ross
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“You no longer get the girl you see. If you’re the star of the movie, you have to get the girl but then they started making pictures which was great for me and people my age, [where] you didn’t get the girl but you got the part.

“So I didn’t get the girl, I then won two Academy Awards.”

Caine won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Hannah and Her Sisters in 1986 and then again in 1999 for The Cider House Rules.

Jonathan Ross is also joined by Golden Globe winner Sylvester Stallone, Michael B Jordan and Sue Perkins on Saturday night’s show.

Speaking up picking up the Best Supporting Actor award last Sunday, Stallone said:

“It was fantastic, you have a few crossroads in your life and you say this happened and Rocky happened but to have the kids there, the wife there and the audience was packed with the most talented human beings in Hollywood.”

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