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- On a mid-October afternoon, Zooming in from his home in Providence, Rhode Island, Richard Jenkins is thinking about Michael Caine. He’s just learned that the British icon, who first inspired him to become an actor when he was in college, has announced his retirement due to mobility struggles.
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Nov 4, 2021 · On a mid-October afternoon, Zooming in from his home in Providence, Rhode Island, Richard Jenkins is thinking about Michael Caine. He’s just learned that the British icon, who first inspired him...
- The Death of John F Kennedy
- American Graffiti
- I Want to Hold Your Hand by The Beatles
- Burt Lancaster in Trapeze
- Michael Caine in Alfie
- Sean Connery’s James Bond
I grew up in the 50s and 60s in DeKalb, Illinois, which is this small town in the midwest about 60 miles from Chicago. It had a population of about 30,000 with a university and a state school. It was surrounded by cornfields, and housed the headquarters of the DeKalb Agricultural Association, where they dealt with hybrid corn to make it more pest- ...
I did not have a deep, profound childhood, let me put it that way. My teenage years were more like [the film] American Graffiti. You’d get in a car on a weekend, drive around town, go through the McDonald’s, come out, drive back, look for people and stuff going on and you’d go to a dance. That was my era; that’s what we did. There was always a guy ...
I’d just listen to whatever was out there. At first it was a lot of rock’n’roll and doo-wop, like Dion and the Belmonts and the Platters. Then, in my junior year in high school, the Beatles came along and I remember thinking: “Wow! Look at these guys!” We thought they had the longest hair: it seemed to go down to their shoes. But if you look at a p...
Every Friday night, I’d go to watch whatever was playing at the theatre with my cousin. We were big on science-fiction. I remember Them!, where nuclear bomb testing in the desert has created these giant mutant ants; so there’s a little politics going on there too. The first five minutes are absolutely terrifying. The Thing from Another World and Al...
I find that movies come along when you need them, speak to you about your life and stay with you for ever. I was studying for my theatre major in college, debating whether I could give acting a shot. One night I went to the movies by myself and I saw Michael Caine in Alfieand it blew me away. I was not very sophisticated. I wasn’t introduced to Bra...
I saw the world through movies. I loved Sean Connery’s Bond. When Dr No and From Russia With Love came out, I was at high school. By the time Goldfinger came out, I was 19 and a sophomore in college. I thought Goldfinger was the greatest film ever made. I remember everybody singing the Shirley Bassey song on the street for the next two weeks. I lov...
Nov 30, 2021 · A24. According to Richard Jenkins, there is one actor he's yet to work with, but whose performance in a single movie pushed Jenkins to pursue acting as a career himself. "I always think if I worked...
Nov 24, 2021 · I always think if I worked with him, I'd be so intimidated, but I always loved Michael Caine. Michael Caine, when I saw "Alfie," I was about 18, 19 years old, and I just thought, "What is this?"
Jan 31, 2023 · 1. Movies come along when you need them. They speak to you about where you are in your life. In college, I was thinking about acting, and it was scary. I saw Michael Caine in Alfie —this man who was the only one who didn’t know his life was empty. That saved me, it answered a question for me.
The first one I think of was Alfie, with Michael Caine. It was a time when I was thinking about becoming an actor and I saw that performance and I thought, "Oh my God, if I could do something like ...
Nov 30, 2021 · I went to the movies by myself, and I saw Alfie, with Michael Caine. That performance…. I thought, ‘If in my life I could do something even close to that, something that would have the effect ...
