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This is Kickass News, I'm Ben Mathes.

With over a hundred movies and two Academy Awards to his credit over six decades,

Hollywood legend Michael Cain is one of our best loved actors.

He starred in a huge range of films from the classic movies Alfie, Zulu, and the Italian job

to the Hollywood blockbusting Dark Knight trilogy, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Hanna and her sisters

and the Cider House rules. Michael Cain has excelled in every kind of role with a skill that makes

it look easy. He knows what success takes because he's made it to the pinnacle of his profession

from humble origins. But as he says, small parts can lead to big things and if you keep doing things

right, the stars will align when you least expect it. Now in his 85th year, he wants to share

everything he's learned in his new book, Blowing the Bloody Doors Off and Other Lessons in Life.

And today he joins me over the phone to talk about the book and his remarkable career.

He discusses why he never used to believe in taking advice from older movie stars,

his humble beginnings in the working-class projects of London known as the Elephant Castle,

and how the 1960s changed everything and made it cool to be a young cockney in the movies.

He shares how he learned discipline serving in the Korean War and why it's not just enough to

be a good actor. As he says, you have to make reliability your brand. He talks about coming out

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