Mar 9, 2009, 10:45 GMT
Sir Michael Caine is struggling to play a character his own age.
The 75-year-old actor plays a retired magician forced to go into a nursing home in 'Is Anybody There?' and is finding it hard to relate to the role. © Solarpix / PR Photos
The 75-year-old actor plays a retired magician forced to go into a nursing home in 'Is Anybody There?' and is finding it hard to relate to the role.
He said: "I don't think of me as an old man so this has been a real stretch.
"I play a guy, 75, 76, and I tell myself, 'He is not you. He is him. He's very sick. He is getting dementia. And he has a much harder life than you have.'
"I always like to stretch myself and do films that interest me. I thought he was a wonderful old man. I really loved him."
The 'Alfie' star also says he enjoys working with people considerably younger than him, insisting he had no problem relating to his 10-year-old co-star Bill Milner in the new movie.
He added: "I'm used to working with children. I worked with 120 of them in The 'Cider House Rules'. They're good company."
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