Nicolas Cage joins me today for a wide-ranging conversation for my Deadline video series, The Actor’s Side where we talk about the critical praise and awards buzz he has been receiving for t…
and why the director says his performance was “too good”; Ridley Scott on among other movies. Regarding the latter he says he loves doing comedy and that was a fun experience although he had no idea it was adapted into a Broadway musical until I informed him of that fact. He wants to do more comedy which is why he says he did the upcoming 2022 release in which he plays both the younger and current version of himself as, yes, Nicolas Cage .
He does tell me the one good thing he believes came out of that experience, and it has to do with his given name, Nicolas Coppola. And speaking of that family connection, he has some very interesting things to say about Uncle Francis and the significance ofHe also tells of the actual inspiration for his ever getting into acting, and no it had nothing to do with his famous family, but instead was because of seeing a certain double feature at the New Beverly Theatre when he was 15.