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Alan Arkin always checks scripts to find out when his character dies

Movie veteran Alan Arkin always scans screenplays to find out on what page his character dies.
The Little Miss Sunshine star accepts he’s no longer leading man material and admits many scripts he receives these days feature his character’s death.
“For the past six, seven years I’ve opened a script and said, ‘What page do I die on? I made it to page 64, not bad!'” the 83-year-old tells WENN. “People say, ‘Isn’t that depressing?’ I say, ‘No, it’s good practice!'”
Arkin admits he hates press interviews with young reporters who fixate on his age: “You get talked about like you’re another species in a way,” he adds. “I don’t feel any different than when I was young. I’m a little slower than when I was 17 but aside from that I’m a person.
“You don’t ask a 36-year-old, ‘What does it feel like to be 36?’ All of a sudden you hit 70 and it’s, ‘What does it feel like to be 70?’ That’s the strange part.”
But, like Going in Style co-star Michael Caine, Arkin has no plans to retire.
Caine insists the movies retire the actor, not the other way around.
“You don’t get a script or the script’s c**p or the money is no good, so you say, ‘I’d rather stay home and watch TV’,” he laughs.

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