London, Apr 27 : Veteran actor Michael Caine's wife is so upset with his role of a dying man in his new film that she has banned their pregnant daughter from watching it.

In the film `Is Anybody There', the 73-year-old actor plays the role a retired magician, crumbling into the final stages of a long life.

His wife Shakira found the film so disturbing that she has banned their pregnant daughter, Natasha, from seeing it.

"She didn''t like it one little bit," the Guardian quoted Caine, who supports his wife''s decision, as saying.

"Shakira explained how she felt to me the other day. I said to her, ''But you have seen me die in lots of movies''. ''No,'' she said, ''I have only seen you killed in movies. In this movie you die as an old man''. It touched her," he added.

Caine hopes to earn an Academy Award for his leading role in the film. (ANI)