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Sometimes spitting in the face of your elders can have unexpected results.
The actor explained that he suspects his saliva actually endeared him to theItalian Jobstar.
“I had to spit in his face, which was massively daunting,” O’Connell remembered.
Michael Caine; Jack O’Connell.Credit:Lia Toby/Getty; Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/WireImage
Caine’s surprising praise stayed with theSkinsstar.
“I’ve not forgotten it,” he said.
Harry Brownsaw Caine play an elderly veteran who seeks violent revenge on the London gang that murdered his friend.
Michael Caine in ‘Harry Brown’.Dean Rogers/Samuel Goldwyn Films/Courtesy Everett Collection
Jolie didn’t drive to meet the O’Connells, though.
“Everyone just buzzed off each other.
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“Growing up, his work meant an enormous amount to me,” he said.
“What his films have done for cinema, British cinema and culture, is hard to encapsulate.
On set, I was all eyes and ears, absolutely beside myself.
Michael Caine in ‘Harry Brown’.Dean Rogers/Samuel Goldwyn Films/Courtesy Everett Collection
He’s there by the cameras, in the trenches.
He’s not sat on some hilltop being fed blueberries.
He’s among it and it’s all very immediate.”
