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For 83 years, Sir Michael Caine has had his birth name printed on his passport.
It was simple enough... when he was in front of the cameras he was Michael Caine and when he was going through passport control he was Maurice Micklewhite.
But it has now been revealed that Sir Michael has had to change his name to Michael Caine 'because if ISIS'.
Speaking in The Sun, the acting legend made the admission after several hours spent at passport control on the UK border. Someone might want to tell him about those electronic passport machines, but, whatever, each to their own.
He said: "I changed my name when all the stuff started with ISIS and all that."
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"He would say, 'Hi Michael Caine,' and suddenly I'd be giving him a passport with a different name on it.
"I could stand there for an hour. So I changed my name."
Fair play: waiting at passport control is annoying enough for people like me who aren't at all recognisable, let alone being Sir Michael Caine and genuinely getting asked by security why your name is different on your passport.
Interestingly, Sir Michael Caine chose that name when his agent called him one night in 1954, before he became famous.
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"One evening my agent said: 'I've got you a job, I've got you three days but you can't call yourself Michael White, so give me another name'.
"I was in a telephone booth in Leicester Square and I was opposite the Odeon and I looked up, and my favourite actor is Humphrey Bogart, and there it was, it said The Caine Mutiny, so I said, 'Caine! Michael Caine!'"
And that's where one of the most famous British faces in Hollywood got his stage name. And now, out of everyone, ISIS has made it official. What a strange world we live in.
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