You have to give a good performance and I’m sure people have.
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The veteran actor said the consequences of a so-called Brexit were “scary” but so were those of being “dictated to by thousands of faceless civil servants”.
“I saw Idris, and I thought he was wonderful”, Caine said. He insisted that their persistence will pay off. “Of course it will come”.
Caine, victor of two Academy Awards, offered advice to black actors: “Be patient”.
For the second consecutive year, all 20 Academy Award acting nominees are white, which has prompted criticism from actors including George Clooney, Reese Witherspoon and Will Smith, who has announced he will be boycotting the awards ceremony next month (February).
When told that Elba was snubbed, Caine, who now stars in the critically-acclaimed movie Youth, replied, “Well, look at me”.
“Unless there are some extremely significant changes, we should get out”, he said on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, adding: “I sort of feel certain we should come out”. Get better, work harder, try harder and then you’ll be a success’.
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HOLLYWOOD legend Sir Michael Caine could be in line to play the leader of the Hatton Garden raiders in a film about the jewellery heist. I thought he would get [nominated]. The man has lost more Oscars than most actors have ever been nominated for, so his opinion about the recent Oscar nomination controversy holds weight. He then joked that he wasn’t going to “sit there clapping for Leonardo DiCaprio”. Of those nominations, he won twice: Best Supporting Actor in 1987 for “Hannah and Her Sisters;” and Best Supporting Actor again in 2000 for “Cider House Rules”.
