English subtitles for clip: File:Michael Caine BBC Radio4 Front Row 29 Sept 2010 b00tyv8c.flac
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1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,500 Movie stardom relied on the fact 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:08,250 that Cy was an American and not an English director 3 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:12,200 and the length of the bar at the Prince of Wales Theatre in the West End, 4 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:14,400 'cause it's a very long bar, 5 00:00:14,500 --> 00:00:16,350 and that's where he was auditioning. 6 00:00:16,475 --> 00:00:19,750 And I went to play a Cockney corporal, and when I got there, 7 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,500 he had already given it to my friend James Booth, 8 00:00:22,700 --> 00:00:25,150 another real Cockney like myself. 9 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:28,430 And when I was walking out, 10 00:00:28,500 --> 00:00:30,750 I got right to the door, and he said, 11 00:00:30,910 --> 00:00:32,925 "You don't look like a Cockney to me." 12 00:00:33,075 --> 00:00:36,250 He said, "You don't really look that tough or anything." 13 00:00:36,250 --> 00:00:39,500 He said, "You look like one of those upper-crust officers. Can you do that?"