No role has ever frightened Cage as much as the one he plays in his new film “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent”: Nicolas Cage. “It was hands-down the scariest thing I’ve ever done in this path I’ve been on.”
In the 1988 black comedy “Vampire’s Kiss,” he. To prepare for his role as a suicidal alcoholic in the 1995 drama “Leaving Las Vegas,” for which he won an Oscar, he had a friend videotape him binge-drinking for two weeks. The internet is filled with lists and compilation videos of “10 Top Nicolas Cage Freakouts,” “The 25 Most Outrageous Nic Cage Moments” and “Nicolas Cage’s 10 Craziest Roles Ever.”
Here, Cage, the film’s director, Tom Gormican, and co-writer Kevin Etten unpack some of the film’s Cage-ian twists and turns. Where Nicolas Cage ends and “Nick Cage” begins Certain aspects of the Cage character are drawn directly from the actor’s life, while others are invented or tweaked. “There are a lot of things in this so-called Nick Cage that are not me,” Cage says. “This was a much more absurdist, neurotic, anxiety-ridden version of so-called Nick Cage.”
“What I did was monumental: I worked my way out of $150 million in debt and I didn’t file for bankruptcy because I was there for my family,” he says. “You didn’t see me do one of those silly Super Bowl commercials — and believe me, they offered. You got a problem with that? I don’t. I’m proud. So with that kind of stuff, I was like, ‘Yeah, let’s talk about it.’”
Cage performed both characters in turn, acting opposite a double; then in postproduction Gormican and his visual effects team digitally matched the Nicky character to Cage’s “Wogan” appearance. “The de-aging part of it was an algorithm that helps you smooth out any wrinkles and change the shape of the face,” Gormican says. “It was a long process of trying to figure out how to accomplish that look.
“When we hired Pedro, he had this conception of Javi that was more like the sort of macho character he’s played before, like on ‘Narcos’ and as the Viper [in ‘Game of Thrones’],” Gormican says. “We thought the more surprising version would be a character that’s closer to Pedro himself, who is actually a Nicolas Cage superfan. That sweeter, softer side of Pedro, where he’s actually head over heels in love with Nicolas Cage, was more interesting.
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