'I met the Kray Twins in a discotheque' | Michael Caine Talks Gangs
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- Michael Caine tells us about meeting the Kray twins, and the gangster who inspired his character in the film Get Carter.
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Interviewer: Holly Newson
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I worked with Michael Caine on a film called The Quiet American. I was never to ask a celebrity for an autograph. Since my Nanna liked his films I asked his assistant if he could write a little something. The next day came a black and white picture with his Autograph wishing my Nanna Shirlie a happy Mother's day, with love Michael. Such a pleasure to work with.
What was your Nan's reaction?
@@CaptainGrimes1 Surprised and loved it very much.
He's a real gent!!!
That sounds like him. He never forgot his roots.
Sounds about right.
Michael is such a treat, we will never see the like of him again.
But he’s still with us!
Why ? Every generation produces people like this and has done for millennia .
..Every generation of new actors and media writers etc gets more pathetic with Time ...now there is the likes of Ben Drew and John Boyega ...it makes you nearly puke !!!
Sir Michael Caine is one of the few actors I would love to meet.
the blip on sir michaels record is ;Harry Brown' ..which was rubbish and anti-british propaaganda...
A friend of mine was in her local when Mr Cain walked in, he was filming Batman at the time. He spent the evening drinking with said friend and is just what he appears to be, a total gent and great company, a class act.
You could at least spell his name right.
@@davidhull1481 There's always one Narcissist out there that has to piss on anything positive that doesn't involve them. Go preen in the mirror you freak.
@@davidhull1481 👏👏👏👏🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏
It’s Caine, get it right
@@DarkKnightwing75 What I said.
Sir Michael Caine is such an icon, with his old school cockney accent it shall make this podcast far more intriguing
Not a cockney
@@marknewbold2583 I think most people mean a London accent.
michael is working class ...now all actors are posho's from eton etc ......
@@marknewbold2583 The elephant and castle is well within earshot of St Mary Le Bow Church at Cheapside, fun fact there were only 2 original parts of London,
Caine is from one of them.
@@marknewbold2583💯💯💯
Caine tells the story of bringing his dear old mum over to visit him in LA in the late sixties early 70s, the two of them are collected by limo at the airport on a hot sunny day and on the way to the hotel his mum said " honestly I can't believe it" to which Caine said "what's that mum, what can't you believe"? She says " a beautiful sunny day and nobody's got their washing hanging out!
That sums up his life, grounded in reality.
Awww bless!!!
LOL! I had an Irish mother and aunts who would have said the same thing! You have to take advantage of the little bit of good weather you get!
Billy Connolly had the ecqvt same story about a Scottish friend of his
I know the feeling! It’s one of the first things I think of when the sun’s out.
He has never got grandiose and remembers where he came from . A rare beast in the movie world.
I had a friend, a plumber by trade, who I met in an r/c model aero club, who came from the same part of London and sounded exactly like Michael Caine, so much so that if he started talking behind you would swear it was Caine in person. He'd play up to it at times ("Not many people know that", if you get the joke ;-). He had the same manner and, like Caine, was a lovely chap as well. Sadly gone now, but I do miss him and his unmistakeable voice.
Not many people know that joke......
So your old mate never had to do a Michael Caine impression, as he talked like that normally. 😀
His scariest character, for me, was the gangster he played in 'Mona Lisa'. One of the most impressive portrayals of a gangland lowlife I've seen, along with Edward G. Robinson as Johnny Rocco, in 'Key Largo'.
Mona Lisa is a great film. Great script, great acting from whole cast
A great film, 'Mona Lisa.' Bob Hoskins also was incredible. And others ... Great film.
Bob Hoskins was ROBBED OF THE OSCAR THAT YEAR.
Magical Michael Caine. The interviewer is very good!
And very sexy
Michaels autobiography was the most enjoyable book iv ever read , i couldn't put it , very funny very interesting and very inciteful. Legend.
Ditto!!!
Yeah great book.
Is this from his book or has he done a separate podcast?
I've. Insightful.
He’s one of the last true greats of cinema. I could listen to his stories all day long.
You might enjoy his book - strongly recommend the audio version. It's as if he's there, talking to you personally.
Caine is also a great raconteur and often tells hilarious stories about his life and career on TV chat shows. He's a very funny bloke. I bet he would be great laugh to listen to while enjoying a pint in a pub.
@@allancerf9038 Is that the one called 'From The Elephant To Hollywood' because I have that in the original hardback edition.
Is the audiobook version abridged or is it the same as the print version and how many CDs is on it?
@@stephenalanmoore7278 It's a download and no it's not From The Elephant to Hollywood. I'll get you details tomorrow.
Him and Clint Eastwood and eastward is incredibly old and frail now
What a down-to-earth guy what you see is what you get a real gentleman.
This was a surprising treat. Sir Michael and a great interviewer. Thank you so much.
Watch his interview with Parkinson it is brilliant.....
No a bad interviewer at all. Got the right questions, wasn't scared of Caine. And Caine himself....as always, Great.
She was also sexy
i agree. A very good interview.
Sir Michael Caine is a legend and just love ❤️ his voice a voice that u can recognise everywhere and anywhere. Xx he is
🤘🌟awesome 🌟🤘xx
🤘❤😊🤘
He 's one of the best actors of his generation.
Respectfully, one of the best actors of any generation.
His, or any generation, definitely.
And a lot of people know that.
@@mike-myke22 indeed they do!
Wooden. Creepy. Monotone.
Very credible. He grew up in Elephant & Castle, which carried a threatening atmosphere then, and still does now, even though it's been totally re-built. I think they call it 'attaching spirits'.
no, some of the estates are still there and some of the scoundrels still live there!
@@GORYGOLD my family lived in it for years (in reality ..unlike you ) ..YOU are certainly not indicative of the majority people who lived there ......😆 nice try tho shill
..There are NO multiracial gangs strolling about ...what happens is called 'Ghettoisation' ..blacks stay with blacks ..and whites stay with whites ...unfortunate but thats reality for you ...most white families moved out years ago ....
@@krishnan-resurrection714 you daft racist
@@GORYGOLD As if it’s terrible to want England for the English, and to be honest about it. ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
Michael will always be a true icon of cinema, a grand master of his art and an inspirational man "with his head screwed on"
One of the single greatest actors ever. Grossly underestimated in America. Madness doesn’t just make a song about you if you’re crap!
Did you know that Caine himself appears on the song saying 'My name is Michael Caine!' several times and he also did the bit at the end when he says 'I think we've got it there, don't you?'
Apparently, his daughter is a huge Madness fan and so he did it to please her. She was thrilled and excited with the gesture.
Michael Caine is a great actor. He worked with the likes of Sir Laurence Olivier. He conducts himslef with such class and dignity that many young actors should take note. These are just some of the things people all over the world love him in any movie he appears in. No matter the movie he just makes it better. He is one of my all time favorites.
My mother once said "That sounds like gun shots". I mocked her a bit, but she said "that definitely sounds like gun shots". I said "Who have you ever heard firing a gun" - she said "Reggie Kray".
Great questions………hats off to the interviewer.
Get Carter has one of the best soundtracks I’ve ever heard in a movie….
Absolutely. My favourite film ever. The landscape has changed so much in Newcastle since then, not surprising really, but I do recall seeing the car park in Gateshead under demolition.
One of my all-time favorite actors.
I could sit there all day listening to him chat about 'anything' because he would put his 'spin' on it which makes it entertaining
So great to see the incomparable Michael Caine. One of my very favourite screen actors. 🌟
One if the best actors of our time. Legend Sir Michael Caine.
Sir Michael. Legend! 👍
Sir Michael Caine is a real actor. I'm happy he's still around. May God keep it that way.
who the f**k is sir michael KING????????????
Love mr Caine his films are class and he's a top actor the best England has ever
Absolutely love this man for the characters he plays as well as the man him self I could listen to him for hours about his life and his story he is One of our greats and quintessential what is to be British
You mean English...
He's not an EastEnder either.
The Elephant is south of the river.
No I mean British what I said The best of
..whats the best now has to offer ?....Ben Drew ?......Jon Boyega ? ....stick them ......😆...the trash ......!
@@krishnan-resurrection714 yes they have nothing to offer you are so right those two stick them in the trash honestly in my honest opinion I think acting is a dying art these days all you need to do is look good behind a CGI blue screen
@@JohnDoe-rn6pz 👍
Get Carter is the best gangster movie of all time.When you have watched a movie dozens of times during your life you know the movie is great.Hats off for the music selection in this movie too.
His memoir Bloody the Bloody Doors off is a must read for anyone going into the acting profession or who works in the film business; actually, it's a terrific book full stop. I'm not an actor and I loved every word of it. It's full of wisdom hard-earned from a truly humble and clearly very intelligent man❤
Get carter is still one of my favourite films best gangster flick , that and good fellows
Love the interviewer! Very natural!!
Great job!
And very sexy
I've met him several times in my old place of work , he was so unassuming and there was nothing difficult about him or look at me , he was just totally regular . You didnt really notice him until he started to speak !
Met him once,although I didn't speak,star struck,we had a job in his apartment in London,overlooking the old American embassy. As we were leaving he walked thro the hallway and said good morning, I think he's brilliant
What a treat -- one of the great actors of my lifetime talking about... well, anything really, but gangsters, sure, why not. I'm all in. Next to Godfather I & II, and maybe a black and white movie from the 40s, and maybe another Scorsese, Get Carter's my favorite gangster movie. Ordinarily, I'd find the character Jack Carter repugnant, loathsome, but because Michael Caine's playing him I find him quite relatable.
"Get Carter" is such a classic film.
..what about 'ill manors' by Ben drew ? ....now that really is load of old crap 😁😆🤣
He made me cry in "Get Carter" the scene where he's watching his niece in a blue movie, and he tears up..You don't see what he sees, but by gum, you know what he felt!..Marvellous....
ill manors is garbage ...as was 'HARRY BROWN' ..TRASH ! . .
Michael you are my HERO ❤Thank you for years of talent and happy memories❤GOD BLESS❤❤😊
Oh Michael what a great statement you make “they are so powerful that they are right”. Most of us have met unpleasant serious people and that is the one thing they all have in common.
Such a great character he is a man's man. Have really enjoyed his films and love his interviews. A legend love him he is my all time favourite xx
Sir Michael.he.has.never forgotten his roots.Lovely.man.and.actor
The little boy next to michael in the opening credits of get carter on the train was billy hannah.. Lovely man who was my boss in Sunderland.. I think its his own dad nxt to him as well.
A young Bill Steel (Tyne Tees TV announcer/reporter & Metro Radio & Century FM DJ & local legend) is also sat in that train carriage opening scene...👌
This man is a national gem.
I didn't realize how funny he was, great bloke.
My nan was from Peckham and she used to tell me how Mr.Caine would be at the pubs and clubs her and her friends frequented and said he was the sharpest dressed boy shed ever seen. Half way through typing this I've realised this is a really boring story where nothing happens. See ya.
Oh well, at least you get likes for the self-awareness! ;-)
Not at all. Your nan was right
Far from boring. ..
It's nice that many people actually knew Mr Caine
Hes not just an actor
An actual real person
One of my favorite actors of all time My Cocaine has such a fascinating and interesting life, he's been a soldier during the Korean War and then later a busy, yet successful actor, then later a successful restaurateur! What a life!
My cocaine isn’t that interesting : (
ha ha ....."my cocaine" .....I'll be using that....though not to excess ....
@@bobbybisset4103 Yeah, I was being funny, but only because I remember seeing a guest on the old Craig Ferguson show; it was some pretty English actress who was saying if you say those words like that then You've sounded like a Cockney accent. Just a play on words 😲
@@philipthomas6808 well, it made me laugh so thanks for that 👍
Another great actor that’s been in some of my favourite films.
Namely Zulu, The Italian Job, The Battle of Britain, The Man Who Would be King, The Eagle has Landed etc etc. Absolutely loads of them.
Get Carter
Sleuth, Educating Rita, A Bridge too far, Alfie
After a lifetime of movies, his are some of the few that linger in my consciousness.
@@youturd55 I didn’t really rate that one. The best part was the intro music on the train.
Harry Brown was the worst ...utter communist drivel ..- right down to the 'multi-racial' gang ..lol .. anyone who has grown up on London estates knows the reality of 'Ghettoisation' ....😆
My old man met Ronnie Kray in Parkhurst. Said he was stood by a pond out of his brain on psychotropic's to keep him quiet most of the time.
Get Carter, as a book (originally called "Jacks return home" by Ted Lewis), was actually not set in Newcastle but set in Scunthorpe. When it came to making the movie, they wanted to pick a bigger, more well known place like a busy city, so Newcastle was chosen. And the film got made there and not in its original location.
More recently, when ut came to putting on the West-End stage show of the movie/book around 5 years or so back, they decided to reset the location within the play back to Scunthorpe.
My brother lives across the road from the row of steel workers cottages mentioned in the book. To be fair, the street they used in the movie was a pretty good representation of those houses.
Love Michael Caine. He reminds me of my dear departed cockney father-in-law.
Get Carter is a great movie. One of his best behind only Zulu and The Man Who Would Be King in my opinion.
My fave…
Yes great movies followed by dirty rotten scoundrels,Alfie,Italian job,and without a clue,and many more.
Death trap, Educating Rita and the Last Valley for me and others Zulu was great...
AND THE Hand...Just kidding about that one!
One of the greats...any film he was in was special and very entertaining.
..except Harry brown ...which was rubbish ....
His insights are phenomenal. I could listen to him all day and be a much wiser person for it.
He once said, a proper gangster doesn't say "Do that again and I'll smash your face in"; he'll just smash your face in.
Another insight, gleaned from a forensic psychiatrist, was that "Psychopaths become the very thing they fear the most".
What would a psychopath fear? They have flat emotions. I think anger is the only real emotion they are known to have but that's tied in with their ego and lust for control.
So yeah I find what you said interesting but they are known to be flat emotionally.
Yeah, psychos don't fear !
An ex Glasgow top cop once said most so called gangsters are sordid cowards
Pure jealousy talking there. He's likely annoyed that they make more scratch and catch his missus's fancy is all.
@@mbryson2899 Maybe, but that doesn't mean he's wrong.
@stewmott3763agree they are bums
I love Michael. Funny, good-looking, & had great movies. Miss his movies.
I remember as a kid of 10 years old one of the Krays brothers coming with my dad to my flat in Islington. I have no idea of the story behind it.
Your Dad was Ronnie Kray's lover?
It is fact, Ronnie the gay man. His brother Reg was the rumor only but Ronnie was for sure.
Probably your old man was getting pumped by him
@@StevieZero Your dad and Ronnie both bummed you.
Yeah, and we know who was giving and who was receiving 😮
Absolutely awesome actor, one of our greats!!! Loved Sir Michael in Harry Brown ❤️
Great interviewer
Could listen to Michael talk all day.
My favourite actor of all time and gentlemen.
That was a spot on criticism from the Richardson's ( I am guessing) about Carter not being married. No film critic would have twigged about that point.
Yep I lived on the same manor as them in the 60s and what wonderful times they were.
Part of the reasons for Michael's authenticity was that he had the actual experience. He grew up in South London and knew what gangs were like, so could do those films with ease. He had a near death experience in Korea so could do the war stuff. Today's actors have lived totally cosseted lives so there is not that realism.
yeah, that gang from elephant and castle were known as THE RICHARDSONS
@@trinihammer OK thanks for that. Next time I'm down the Elephant and castle I will know to give the Richardsons a wide berth!
@@patricksmith4424 nah, no need to do that one of the brothers lives in south africa and the other is still in prison. so you should be alright now.
all that korea war stuff is garbage .....michael never saw any conflict .....😆
@@trinihammer
Yes they were rivals to the KRAYS
He played an extremely frightening character in Death Trap with Christopher Reeve ,i dont remember anouther movie were he was a clown and spent the duration of the movie in a large mansion cant remember anything else ,i loved him in The tv series jack the ripper
The most imitated man in the UK. "My name is Michael Cain"...... everybody does it - he did it himself on the Parkinson Show......gotta love the man......
For me one of my favourite movies of all time and definitely his best film goes to the Italian job, an absolute classic.
One of my favorite actors ever, such a cool guy, he is classy, inteligent, funny, a true gent who actualy grew up with gangsters, you can not make that up!
Michael Caine,,,is all class,,,and also a great actor.
I could listen to him talk all day.
Michael Caine and those eyes... A look from him in anyway will melt you down to submission... LOL!! Sucu a danm good actor. Way up there for me. Love him so.
Mr Caine an actor amongst actors, just a wonderful guy.
My Old Man was born in the Elephant and Castle, Ontario Street in 1916. Different days then...
Im related to him. Michael Caine. My late grandmother's cousin. Proud of that. :)
Lol
@@francishunt562 Laugh all you want but my grandmother is in his autobiography.
What a fantastic guy, classic actor and artists, a real person.
Harry Brown is a must watch!
Caine never forgot his roots, however big he got. I remember a story about how poor they were when he was a kid, his father could not afford to buy a radio - so he had to rent one.
Lol, that's not poor. We rented a telly. Loads of people rented stuff
..before the africans were shipped in ...
@@marknewbold2583 "Rented"?? We DREAMED of renting a telly! We were so poor, our father made us act out the nightly news!
@@krishnan-resurrection714 Wha??
The character, Carter, may not have been married, but it was family that drove his actions.
John Bindon who played Sid Fletcher in Get Carter was an enforcer for the Kray Twins apparently.
Get carter is a great film, a classic
I agree she is a good interviewer looks like she was a fan as well
Hmmn.. I read his first autobiography 'Whats It All About ' published in the early 90s. Its a much more honest/less pc version tgan his later ones (also read). Caine never talked about 'gangs' in his first book (gangsters yes.. but not gangs there's a big difference) but after acting in Harry Brown he has since felt the need to describe his childhood 'gang' affiliations'! (Well not quite as dramatic as that but you get the drift!) Gangsters live/lived often seedy and violent lives but there is also a perverse attraction we have to the glamour/style snd general 'coolness' of a traditional gangster. 'Gangs' on the other hand are often low life 'hoodies' perpetuating knife crime etc I understand Michael's working class aleigence, but there is nothing to boast about being part of a gang (Particularly as it seems a little embellished due to its omission in his first book)
Film of that disco encounter would be awesome
She's a very good interviewer.
One of my greatest regrets is that Sir Michael never played 007..I think he would have been a spectacularJames Bond...
..he played Harry Palmer ....thats why could not do it. ... .
The names bond.... James bond... Not alot of people know that🤣
@@krishnan-resurrection714 A far superior part to boot.
I believe that he auditioned for Bond. But the women went crazy for Sean Connery. A dear friend of Caine’s.
He played the father of Austin Powers.
I saw his movie about the Hatton Garden robbery and he curses so much in it that it really stood out.
Great actor and gentleman. One of my favourites. Who is the interviewer?
Holly Newson. She does a lot of interviews for Audible.
Michael Caine LEGEND 🙏✝️
I met them as well in the Two eyes coffee bar in the 60s
As others have said an absolute legend and the like of which we will never see again.
His presence in any production raises it's quality and personally one of my favourites is Harry Brown.
The world of entertainment will be a poorer place when Michael finally leaves us 😢
Legend...straight up ...legend..
The man who would be king is one of my favorite Caine movies.
Michael Caine... absolute legend!
Michael top bloke & brilliant actor 👏
The one thing I like about Michael Cain is,he is a down to earth guy
"Get Carter" is great movie.
Michael Caine is England's #1 national treasure. Equivalent in statute to Americas #1 national treasure, Clint Eastwood.
Brilliant actor and storyteller
Michael Caine you legend🙏🏻
Michael Caine is a Bloody Good Actor 👍
After Zulu my favorite movie of his was Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Great actor and a great man !!!! 💯