If I'm at a party at your house and I put Grown Ups 2 in the DVD player, nothing against that movie, but it's a party, people are going to eventually go into the kitchen so they can keep partying. If I put Ghost Rider 2 in, at some point, there's going to be a circle of people sitting cross legged around the TV.
The party's going to become a Ghost Rider 2 party. And Cage. There are often lists of the great living male movie stars: De Niro, Nicholson and Pacino, usually. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He's daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air.
No one else can project inner trembling so effectively. Recall the opening scenes in "Leaving Las Vegas. He alway seems so earnest. However improbable his character, he never winks at the audience. Much was made about it because of her father and whatnot, but we had a simple relationship in my opinion. That was a different time in my life. Many lifetimes ago. Things are simpler since he shed all those properties, he says. Cage once owned a portfolio including castles in Germany and England, mansions in New Orleans and Rhode Island, and an island in the Bahamas.
From the outside, it looks as though he went through a period of testosterone-fuelled property acquisition. Why was that?
I thought it was real. I didn't trust stocks and I didn't trust just leaving it in the bank. I believed in real estate. So now I'm working through all that. The properties were sold, mostly at a loss, and he now lives more modestly. And I enjoy it that way. The magic of the green hills and the trees and the history. Then I have this other small lifestyle in Las Vegas. Which is a different kind of magic.
That's the razzle-dazzle of the city. My wife loves it and we have good friends there. And that's it. That's my life, which is simple. And I want to keep it that way. He gets upset when people accuse him of saying yes to any job just to pay off his debts, or the jibe that he works too much.
If you've made mistakes in the past, you don't just roll over on people or cave in, you find a way through it. But in film acting, for some reason you get criticised for working. I'm reminded of something Sean Penn said about him, based on his prolific and populist output: "He's not an actor, he's a performer. Acting to me implies lying. Anyway, Cage says, his life these days is extremely stable thanks to Alice. I mean, way out of my own zip code. I married into another culture, and it's interesting because in Korea they call me the Son-in-Law.
Alice is 20 years his junior, a former waitress whom he met when she was 19 and working at an LA restaurant. He adds, "And we did it because we loved each other. If the genders were reversed, we would be talking a lot about the age gap, in which Cage is profoundly uninterested, although Alice's family were not so sanguine. Samsung is Korean.
Hats off to any country that works as hard as they do. Cage has never spent more than four days away from his son, and is trying to figure out if it's fair to take him out of school for three weeks when he films in China later this year.
Has he shown Kal Nosferatu yet? Cage grew up watching James Bond and realised, studying Sean Connery, that a career in action will keep you working. It's not the Oscar he won for Leaving Las Vegas, or his charming performances in Adaptation and Raising Arizona that fuel demand for him. I did not want to be in a big splashy romantic comedy with Cher. But you don't go around doing the things that character does — in a bear suit — and not know it's absurd.
Movies like Gone in 60 Seconds, in which he plays a reformed but notorious car thief, and the fantasy comedy The Family Man followed in The sheer variety of his roles is wild.
His movies range from earnest dramas to rambunctious schlock. You might be forgiven, watching all of his films in a row, for thinking Cage is a chameleon, or able to divide himself into multiple personalities. Tom Hanks was originally cast in the role. In the film, Charlie is twitchy, phobic, and ridden by anxiety; Donald is cool-tempered, breezy, full of confidence. His narration creates the desperate agony of a man so smart he understands his problems intimately, yet so neurotic he is captive to them.
He headlined the critically panned but wildly successful National Treasure franchise, the first installment of which launched in His star seemed to start falling in , with the release of the widely derided remake of The Wicker Man , but he kept working, starring in box office winners like Ghost Rider and Knowing In , this public image hit an inflection point. He worked a lot in the s, appearing in 42 films between and and producing two more.
To the Movies , and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ; took on roles in the kind of indie horror films that find an adoring audience in midnight screenings at film festivals. And there were mega-duds, the apex of which is probably the Left Behind reboot, in which Cage appears to have lost the will to live.
At this point, the roles he accepts are not all about the money — and that shows in the risks he is willing to take. That drive to never stop working and stretching, to be someone new in every film, is what marks a Nicolas Cage performance. The actor played Charlie and Donald Kaufman in "Adaptation" He was H. McDonnough in the crime comedy "Raising Arizona" The actor voiced Superman in "Teen Titans Go! To the Movies" Cage was Red in the revenge movie "Mandy" Cage played a man dealing with a meteor in "Color out of Space" On the other hand, "Fire Birds" was a critical flop.
He played a man investigating his son's disappearance in "Pay the Ghost" Cage was in the fantasy film "Season of the Witch" On the other hand, critics didn't love "Dying of the Light" The actor played Kyle Miller in "Trespass" Cage was Joe in the thriller "Bangkok Dangerous" Critics weren't impressed by Cage's film "Trapped in Paradise" In the adventure film "Outcast" Cage played a warrior.
The actor played Mike Chandler in "" He was Eddie in the action thriller "Arsenal" The actor played Rayford Steele in "Left Behind" In the drama "Deadfall" Cage was Eddie. Loading Something is loading.
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