Michael Caine: An Accent on Life

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🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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He has been nominated for an Academy Award in every one of the past five decades, and won twice, for "Hannah And Her Sisters" and "The Cider House Rules". Fifteen year olds think of him as Alfred, Batman’s butler In the Dark Knight Trilogy. 85 year olds think of him as Alfie, the shameless womanizer in the iconic 1960’s film by the same name. In between Michael Caine has been in 150 movies, and he’s still going strong. He is as amusing and charming off-screen as on, and tells story after story here about his beginnings as a scrappy, poor Cockney kid who, against all odds, became one of Hollywood’s most beloved actors.

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0:00.0	This is how Michael Kane speaks. Michael Kane speaks to his nose about that. He gets very, very specific. It's very like that.
0:11.0	When he gets loudly, it gets very loud indeed.
0:14.8	She was only six-tit, you're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off.
0:19.3	That's Michael Kane.
0:21.3	If you do a quick YouTube search search you can find lots of people doing Michael Kane impressions and he says he doesn't mind at all.
0:29.0	Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's very funny. They always doing my accent as a cockney, you know, but thicker than my
0:36.4	accent that I'm speaking to you now. This is just a London accent that you can understand.
0:46.9	They go not many people know that just the way that's the impersonations go you know my name is Michael Kaye not with people
0:51.2	know that that's my impersonation of me.
0:55.0	Michael Kane's voice is just one of those everyone knows and everyone loves.
1:00.0	Think about it.
1:01.0	Have you ever met anyone who isn't a Michael Kane fan?
1:05.0	My parents loved him in Alfie and the Ip Chris File and the Italian job back in the 1960s.
1:12.0	My teenage kids love him now in the Batman Dark Night Trilogy
1:16.8	and in Kingsman, The Secret Service. And my own love kind of bridges the gap there
1:21.9	with way too many to choose from.
1:24.0	Sleuth, educating Rita, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Mona Lisa, the Sider House rules.
1:30.0	There's just something about that guy and lucky you he's about to regale you with
1:36.0	fantastic stories about elephant and castle the working-class London neighborhood
1:41.2	where he grew up and about the joys of acting well
1:44.8	in 2-1's 80s. Michael Kane is on this episode of What It Takes, a podcast about
1:51.0	passion, vision, and perseverance from the Academy of Achievement.
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