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Both actors, as well as co-star Harvey Keitel, 76, said on
Wednesday after a screening of Italian director Paolo
Sorrentino's film, set among wealthy retirees in a posh Swiss
resort, that there was no disguising who they are at this age.
"The only alternative to playing elderly people is playing dead
people. So...I'm quite smart, I picked elderly people," Caine
joked at a news conference where he and Fonda were queried about
scenes which seem to strip them of all or most makeup.
Caine said he hadn't minded the massage scene.
"It didn't matter to me because it's the only body I've
got...And an aging body, to people who are not old, this is
what's going to happen to you. So don't get too smart about it."
Fonda, who practically invented the screen look of the pneumatic
female superhero in the 1968 French-Italian sci-fi movie "Barbarella",
said she'd enjoyed her part in Sorrentino's film as the aged
Hollywood diva Brenda Morley, upon whom Keitel's director
character depends for making his last film.
"There's something very vulnerable about an old woman who puts
on the mask of makeup and everything and when that's stripped
away she becomes very vulnerable and it's fun to play," Fonda
said.
Caine, whose film "Alfie" about a London womanizer won a special
jury prize at Cannes in 1966, said he'd almost made a faux pas
with Queen Elizabeth when she knighted him in 2000.
"I nearly got into trouble there, because she said to me -- and
she doesn't say very much -- she said to me, 'I have a feeling
you have been doing what you do for a very long time'.
"And I almost said, 'And so have you'. But I thought, 'Michael
keep your mouth shut. You're about to lose your knighthood and
end up in the Tower (of London) beheaded'."
The film by Sorrentino, whose "La grande bellezza" won the
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2014, is one of
19 competing for the Palme d'Or prize on Sunday.
(Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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