Michael Caine remembers how a young Tom Cruise turned to him for advice

Actor Michael Caine and his wife Shakira with actors Rebecca De Mornay and Tom Cruise at the event … (+) Screening of the film “Educating Rita” at the Film Directors Guild Theater, September 12, 1983. (Photo by Frank Edwards/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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Tom Cruise turned to Michael Caine for advice 40 years ago. What did he ask the legendary actor?

Kane, of course, is a film icon who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Hannah and her sisters And Winemaker’s Rules and starred in such classic films as Alfie, Italian work, Detective And California Suite.

Kane also played Bruce Wayne’s butler Alfred in Christopher Nolan Dark Knight trilogy opposite Christian Bale And Morgan Freemanand also Nolan Origin.

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In a Sunday interview with the magazine Sunday Times discuss his new memoirs Don’t Look Back, You’ll Stumble: My Guide to LifeCaine recounted his first meeting with Cruise at an event promoting his 1983 film. Raising Rita.

“I’ve known Tom for over 40 years,” Kane said. Sunday Times. “We held a big event for Raising Rita And I turned around and saw a young actor, very polite, asking questions about how not to become just a flash in the pan. It was Tom, probably around the time Risky business“

What advice did Kane give to Cruz?

Since it’s been over 40 years since he met Tom Cruise, Michael Caine admitted that his memory is a little hazy regarding the exact words he said to the future movie star.

“I can’t remember what I said, but it clearly didn’t do him any harm! There was something special about him,” Kane said. Sunday Times. “He had a great attitude, this sense of poise.”

Kane also called Cruise “one of the last true movie stars.”

“People will go see a movie just because he’s in it. Brad Pitt is a star, Morgan Freeman also has that quality,” Kane told the publication. “There are so few of them today – not like John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart or Cary Grant.”

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Kane and Cruise kept in touch, of course, and the movie icon was thrilled to see how Top Shot: Maverick And Mission: Impossible the star was a surprise guest at his landmark birthday celebration.

“For my 90th birthday, Shakira—my wife of 51 years—surprised Tom Cruise for dinner at the River Café,” Kane recalls. Sunday Times. “I was very touched.

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