Michael Caine remembers filming a intercourse scene with Mia Farrow and her ex-husband displaying up: ‘Bloody hell’

Michael Caine is recalling an ungainly encounter he had with a costar — and her ex.

The Alfie actor particulars his time engaged on Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters in his new memoir Don't Look Again, You'll Journey Over — together with the awkward incident the place his on-screen spouse, Mia Farrow, had a shock customer on set. "I bear in mind one embarrassing second after I was doing a love scene in mattress with Mia – and I search for and there's her ex-husband, André Previn!" Caine writes.

The Darkish Knight star says that he was instantly apprehensive in regards to the presence of Previn, who was married to Farrow from 1970 to 1979 and shared three youngsters along with her. " I believed, bloody hell that is going to be tough," Caine remembers. "However it was effective."

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Maybe extra awkward was the truth that Allen and Farrow had really been romantically entangled since 1980 — which Caine takes some credit score for in his guide. "In a humorous means, it was right down to me that she and Woody bought collectively in any respect — they’d that lengthy relationship and made a number of films," he writes. "[My wife] Shakira and I used to go to Elaine's, which was an ideal New York restaurant, you all the time noticed fascinating and well-known individuals there. We cherished going there. And so did Woody Allen, amongst many others."

Caine says that he knew Farrow "from means again," and that she used to go to him in London when she was starting her profession. "After which in New York one night, she stated to me, 'Are you aware Woody Allen?'" he remembers. "I stated, 'Sure, as a matter of truth, we do know him. Not very properly, however he's usually in Elaine's. He all the time appears to come back in across the similar time within the night as we're there.' So she stated, 'Effectively, in case you're ever there and also you see Woody Allen at one other desk, invite me alongside to dinner.' And so I did. Which is how they actually met."

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Whereas filming Hannah and Her Sisters, the Italian Job star says that he witnessed some pressure on the connection between Allen and Farrow, who finally separated in 1992 after the filmmaker started a sexual relationship with the actress' daughter, Quickly-Yi Previn.

"Thoughts you, in some way or different, Woody and Mia didn't get on so properly," Caine writes. "You might see the tensions, even then. However I used to be clearly targeted on the half. I used to be by no means shut sufficient to them to know that it was all going to finish so horribly. Very unhappy."

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Caine remembers Hannah and Her Sisters, which finally earned him his first Oscar for Greatest Supporting Actor, with nothing however fondness. "I cherished the script and New York as a setting, and I had a good time attempting to determine taking part in this man who has the whole lot however is so stressed and sad," he writes. "He's working across the metropolis like a idiot on this massive coat attempting to invent causes to stumble upon the Barbara Hershey character."

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He continues, "He's romantic but in addition pathetic. It was a improbable function, I cherished it — an advanced, middle-aged man who lives in his head and isn't even barely heroic."

Don't Look Again, You'll Journey Over is on cabinets now.

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