The need to retire is understood in all professions except interpretation. Michael Caine, for example, did not think about officially retiring until 2021 after starring in Best Sellers, a comedy with Aubrey Plaza. He didn't last long. In 2023 he returned with The Great Escaper and, during promotion, he said that he was now moving away from the cameras after having worked on the project at 90 years old and with a cane. Two months later, however, British media report that he is back in action: he will soon be in a Netflix production.
Details of the production are barely known. According to The Sun, it is a series and filming will begin in January, although at the moment no further information is provided: neither who else is involved in the project, nor the title, nor the weight of Michael Caine's role, which in turn age considers that he can no longer offer the acting skills he used to.
At the moment, neither the actor's representatives nor Netflix deny or confirm this collaboration. If confirmed, it would be an interesting decision in the career of the winner of two Oscars for best supporting actor, first for Hannah and Her Sisters in 1986 and then for The Cider House Rules in 1999. To date, his career has has been marked by its distance from television, where in recent decades it has only participated in a handful of miniseries.
The last collaboration was in 2018 giving voice to Watership Hill, a Netflix animated series. Previously he had been in Freedom (2003), he was Captain Nemo in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997), Joseph Stalin in When the Lions Roared (1994) and Jack the Ripper (1988).
At the beginning of his career he had been more regularly linked to the medium. He made his debut as an actor in the television film Morning Departure (1946) when he was 13 years old and returned in an episode of The Crime of the Century (1956). From then until 1964 he participated in multiple television projects until he focused on his film career. It didn't take long for him to gain a foothold: Alfie, which was released in 1966, gave him his first Oscar nomination.
