Do you think that Jude Law is trying to be Michael Caine?

CAINE: No, he’s trying to be Jude Law. But I do know what he’s doing in a way. Jude Law is a very handsome young man, and he, like a lot of handsome young people, is saying, ‘I am not just here on my looks, and I will show you.

€™ And I think he has shown us, he’s not here for his looks. The Inspector wasn’t very nice looking (he laughs). And I think that’s what he’s doing.

As a young actor, I did that a bit, I wasn’t as good looking as him so I didn’t have to do it so extreme, but I did that. I was always trying to be an actor rather than a nice looking young film star who gets the girls and all that. And now I’ve succeeded, I’m a really ugly old actor.

Q: Jude also did Alfie. CAINE: He’s only done two things, and one of them doesn’t count – this one, because it’s not the same part, because there isn’t a single line in this script that was in the other one. It’s completely different.

There’s nothing. And so I couldn’t look at Jude, when we were acting, and say, ‘Oh I did that line ... more.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.