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Michael Caine says he was advised against playing gay characters

Sir Michael Caine has shared that earlier in his career he was advised to turn down roles where he played a homosexual character.

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Having made films for over five decades Michael Caine has been in over 125 different movies. His newest outing King of Thieves sees him teaming up with Ray Winstone, Tom Courtney, Michael Gambon and Jim Broadbent for a real-life tale about some bank robbers who are much older than your average thief.

While out promoting the unused film, Caine told Rolling Stone that he was advised to twist down roles in the film Deathtrap and California Suite because the character he was portraying was gay.

Caine said he was told the parts could be career ending with advisors saying; “and what are the girls going to reflect of you?”

The player told the magazine that he was confident that audience would remember that he was just an actor.

“A couple of people said, `Do you really want to act it, Michael? People will think you’re gay.’ I said, ” ‘No, they won’t. They know I’m an actor.'”

In the interview Caine said the neither he or co-star Ch

October 11th is NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY. In the essence, I am re-posting a clip that I love and I hope you'll love it too. The marvelous Michael Caine, Oscar winner, delighted me on my old VH1 talk show called WATCH BOBBY RIVERS. At the day, Sir Michael had recently won his first Oscar. He was voted Leading Supporting Actor for Woody Allen's classic 1986 film, HANNAH AND HER SISTERS.

Back in the 1960s, if you saw that a production had been produced by Joseph E. Levine in it, that movie usually had sexy and scantily clad babes in it. Usually, but not always. Levine seemed to have the producer's creed that "sex sells." The historical British war legendary, ZULU, was a hit movie. In it, a screen newcomer named Michael Caine received terrific notices for his performance as an effete British military officer.

Joseph E. Levine was executive producer of this deed movie. He was pleased with Michael Caine's performance but he was concerned that moviegoers would think Caine was gay.

The actor, quite the witty storyteller, told me about this little wall he hit first in his career because of a top producer's limited vision.

Micha

40 Years Ago, Michael Caine Broke His Decades-Old Golden Rule To Kiss Superman

Summary

Michael Caine broke his no kissing rule to kiss Christopher Reeve in 1982's Deathtrap.
Caine's willingness to break his rule was considered progressive, despite backlash.
Caine's rule stemmed from early theater experiences, where he avoided kissing men.

Michael Caine is a well respected actor who has earned the right to construct certain demands, but he broke one of his own rules on the set of Deathtrap. Caine is a staple in Hollywood who has been appearing in hit films since 1946, when he was just 13 years old. Since then, Caine grew to become a luminary who was successful on both sides of the Atlantic, with over 170 credits to his name. As a long standing celebrity, whose mere name is able to draw an audience, Caine is granted the opportunity to put certain conditions in place before accepting new work.

However, in his autobiography, "What's it All About?," Caine has recounted a story whe

Meeting marvelous Michael Caine will always be a highlight of my TV career. He was a terrific guest on my VH1 talk present in the late 1980s. He's a wonderful performer and a witty conversationalist. With all the decades of screen success he's had, he never slash away from his productive class roots. That is a large part of his charm. During the show, I asked Mr. Caine what drove him in his career. He replied, "Fear." I understood that. It was the fear of not organism noticed, not achieving something, not being significant. The new British actor first clicked with American moviegoers with his performance in the historical war grand, Zulu. Caine played a military officer in that 1964 action drama.

For his 1966 performance as Alfie, cad who feels that the only life worth having...

...is a sex life, Caine got the first of his six Oscar nominations. He went on to become one of the few actors to triumph two Academy Awards in the category of Top Supporting Actor. His first victory was for Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and the second was for The Cider House Rules (1999). Today, mo