Apr 27, 2009, 4:00 GMT
Michael Caine's wife hates his latest movie.
04/02/2009 - Michael Caine - The 76-year-old actor said: "Shakira didn't like it one bit. She explained how she felt to me the other day. I said to her, 'But you have seen me die in lots of movies'. 'No,' she said, 'I have only seen you killed in movies. In this movie you die as an old man'. It touched her." © Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos
Shakira- who has been married to Michael for 36 years - disliked 'Is Anybody There?' so much, she banned the couple's pregnant daughter from seeing it.
In the film, Michael plays a retired magician who is slowly dying of dementia in an old-age home in the 1980s.
The 76-year-old actor said: "Shakira didn't like it one bit. She explained how she felt to me the other day. I said to her, 'But you have seen me die in lots of movies'. 'No,' she said, 'I have only seen you killed in movies. In this movie you die as an old man'. It touched her."
Despite his wife's disapproval, Michael thinks this is his most convincing performance to date.
He added: "The performance in this film is the best I can possibly do. That's the problem. That's why it touched my wife."
The actor thinks he captured the character so well because he recently lost a friend, his tailor Doug Howard, to the disease.
He told Britain's The Observer newspaper: "I'd just spent five years watching somebody deal with it, so I knew exactly about Alzheimer's and the confusion it causes. Douglas was my tailor - he wasn't just my tailor.
"Basically he was my best friend who made my suits. When I was dying in the film, he was dying, so it was a very special time for me."
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