Michael Caine says he spent eight years attempting to not blink

Sir Michael Caine has admitted he spent eight years attempting to not blink to excellent his appearing approach.

The legendary actor, 88, defined {that a} guide titled Educate Your self Movie Appearing featured the tip to “by no means blink” – main him to spend eight years attempting to not shut his eyelids.

Talking to The Mirror, Caine stated: “One factor that caught in my thoughts was, ‘Don’t blink. You will need to by no means blink’.

“For the following eight years, I walked round attempting to not blink. Folks round me, my mom and everyone, thought I had gone nuts.

Michael Caine on the fifty fifth Karlovy Differ Worldwide Movie Competition in August 2021 CREDIT: Gabriel Kuchta/Getty Pictures

“They thought I used to be a psychopath. I used to frighten the life out of individuals.”

His dedication to staring even earned him the nickname ‘Snake Eyes’ in class.

Caine isn’t the one actor to say the approach, with Anthony Hopkins beforehand explaining the way it helped him play Hannibal Lecter in The Silence Of The Lambs (1991).

“Should you don’t blink, you realize you may hold the viewers mesmerised,” Hopkins stated to ABC News. “It’s not a lot not blinking, it’s simply being nonetheless. Stillness has an financial system and an influence about it.”

Caine was honoured with a lifetime achievement award on the fifty fifth Karlovy Differ Worldwide Movie Competition within the Czech Republic on Friday (August 20).

His breakthrough function was in 1964’s Zulu, starring in Christopher Nolan’s The Darkish Knight trilogy, The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Italian Job, Educating Rita amongst many others since.