Michael Caine retired two months ago… and now he’s back with a series for Netflix?

The need to retire is included in all professions except interpreting. Michael Caine, for example, didn’t plan on officially retiring until 2021 after acting Best sellers, a comedy starring Aubrey Plaza. It didn’t last long.

In 2023 he returned with The Great Fugitive AND, During promotion, he said he was now walking away from the cameras after working on the project in his 90s and with a cane..

Two months later, however, the British media report that he is active again: he will soon be in a Netflix production.

Production details are little known. According to the newspaper The sun, It’s a series and filming will begin in Januaryalthough at the moment no further information is provided: neither who else is involved in the project, nor the title, nor the weight of the role of Michael Caine, who at his age believes 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 later The rules of life in 1999.

I’m not very fond of TV

Until today, His career was marked by his distance from televisionwhere in recent decades he has only participated in a handful of miniseries.

The last collaboration was in 2018 giving voice to Hill of Waterships, a Netflix animated series. I had been there before Freedom (2003), he was Captain Nemo of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997), Joseph Stalin When the lions roared (1994) e Jack the Ripper (1988).

Earlier in his career he had been linked more regularly to the medium.

He made his acting debut in the television film Morning departure (1946) when he was 13 and returned in an episode of The crime of the century (1956).

From then until 1964 he participated in numerous television projects until he concentrated on his film career. It didn’t take long for him to catch on: Alfie, released in theaters in 1966, gave him his first Oscar nomination.