Michael Caine blasts “bullshit” criticism of ‘Zulu’
Zulu incites the far-right, calling it “bullshit”.Earlier this year, the film was cited as a “key text” for “white nationalists/supremacists” during a review into the government’s counter-terrorism programme Prevent.Speaking to The Spectator, Caine revealed he got the part of arrogant, inexperienced Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead in Zulu after playing “a cockney bloke in the West End in a play called Next Time I’ll Sing To You.”“An American director who was in the audience saw me and gave me a part in the film Zulu as a posh officer. This made me a star and I never went back on the stage again,” said Caine.Responding to the news that Zulu was named a piece of culture that “incites the far-right”, Caine said: “That is the biggest load of bullshit I have ever heard.”Elsewhere in the interview, he revealed “there are no films I wish I hadn’t made.