Michael Caine discusses his first interaction with Tom Cruise 40 years ago

At nan property of 91, Michael Caine has seen a batch complete his decades successful Hollywood. The two-time Oscar victor is retired from acting, but he’s now promoting his caller memoir, Don’t Look Back, You’ll Trip Over. During 1 question and reply to beforehand nan book pinch nan Sunday Times, Caine recalled gathering Tom Cruise for nan very first clip backmost successful 1983 astatine an arena for Caine’s movie Educating Rita.

“I turned astir and location was this young actor, very polite, asking questions astir really not to beryllium conscionable a flash successful nan pan. That was Tom, astir apt astir nan clip of Risky Business,” he explained.

Caine added that, while he couldn’t retrieve really he’d responded, he feels for illustration nan proposal must person been okay. “I can’t retrieve what I said, but it evidently didn’t do him immoderate harm!” he explained. “There was thing typical astir him. He had a awesome attitude, this consciousness of poise. What interests maine is that he is really 1 of nan past existent stars successful movies. People will spell to spot a movie conscionable because he’s successful it. Brad Pitt is simply a star, Morgan Freeman has immoderate of that value too. There are truthful fewer nowadays — not for illustration John Wayne aliases Humphrey Bogart aliases Cary Grant.”

Although Caine and Cruise look to person been friends pinch 1 different off-screen, nan 2 surface icons only stock a azygous in installments — some actors starred in Austin Powers in Goldmember in 2002. Caine whitethorn beryllium a procreation removed from Cruise, but astatine this point, some person been stars successful Hollywood for decades.