However, Cage viewed his famous surname as more of a nuisance than anything, which is why he changed it early in his career. Cage attended Beverly Hills High School, and it was there that he first began acting. He studied theater at the school, but long desired to be acting in movies.
Feeling like high school was holding him back, Cage dropped out in his senior year to pursue acting full-time. He nabbed his first role when was 18 in the high school drama "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" Although Cage's role in the film was minor, it gave him the confidence to charge full-steam ahead in building an acting career for himself.
By the early s he had changed his surname to Cage, after the Marvel superhero Luke Cage, and with the name change, saw his acting prospects rise. He was cast in his first substantial role as the lead in the comedy "Valley Girl," and over the next few years started steadily building a name for himself with parts in films like "Rumble Fish" , "The Cotton Club" , "Birdy" , and "Peggy Sue Got Married" With his acting career on the upswing, Cage nabbed a breakout role as a manic ex-con in the Coen Brothers' crime comedy "Raising Arizona.
After "Raising Arizona," Cage began displaying his versatility as an actor by appearing in a wide array of different film genres. He appeared in romantic comedies like "Moonstruck" and "Honeymoon in Vegas" , horror films like "Vampire's Kiss" , and crime thrillers like "Red Rock West" and "Kiss of Death" Then in Cage floored both audiences and critics with his magnetic performance as a suicidal alcoholic in the bleak drama "Leaving Las Vegas.
Although he could never quite be pinned down to one specific genre of film, by the lates Cage began starring in a number of big-budget genre pictures made for the masses. He did make time to star in Martin Scorsese's dark drama "Bringing out the Dead" in , and earned his second Oscar nod for his role as screenwriter Charlie Kaufman in 's "Adaptation," but by the mids Cage's acting output was relegated almost exclusively to effect-heavy films with huge budgets.
Cage would still, on occasion, make time to appear in more character driven works, among them "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" , "Joe" , and "Snowden" But for the most part, by the s he was mostly appearing in genre films.
The s also saw Cage's output increase at a furious rate, with the actor appearing in multiple films a year. In alone he appeared in six films, among them "Primal," about a rare captive jaguar that escapes, and "Running with the Devil," a crime thriller which co-starred Laurence Fishburne. By , Nicolas Cage had been acting professionally for nearly 40 years and had appeared in over films according to IMDB , thus making him one of the most prolific film actors of his generation.
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And so I love it. Cage's politics are indistinct. He has a libertarian edge, but also seems broadly liberal. I wonder if he has any sympathy for Jim Carrey, who last month criticised his own decision to appear in Kick-Ass II Cage was in the first Kick-Ass movie because of its violence. I believe in freedom of speech. I don't believe in putting a gag on creative expression. Don't go to the movie if you don't want to see violence.
That's your choice. I hate slasher films, for example. I don't watch slasher films, I think they're disgusting. But I think it's important to live in a world where there's that freedom to create whatever it is you want to create. But I've been very neutral. By design. I know some people look down on my quietude, but I feel it would impact my ability to be an artist. If I wanted to make a movie about it one day, I don't want you to know what side I'm on when you go to that movie.
It's like I, Claudius. I know this is random, but the whole reason Claudius survived and went on to be emperor is because he was smart enough to keep quiet and to build his path. Which is what I'm doing. And so he ploughs on. His new film, The Frozen Ground, based on the true story of a serial killer who killed at least 17 women in Alaska in the s, is a good, solid drama, with Cage as the cop and John Cusack as the killer. There is something quite touching about Cage's complete failure to publicise it during the interview, although it is the pretext for our meeting.
The fact is — and one can well imagine this — that Cage says he's no good when he's not working. They want to please, they want to work.
I watch CNN. I read the Guardian. I'm trying to take in what's happening in the world. Those become resources for me. It's not possible, because I am open to the world. It's the fundamental Cage paradox: the guilelessness that makes his performance.
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When the trailer for Pig hit the Internet, Twitter erupted into rapture and disbelief. The idea of Nicolas Cage starring in a film about a truffle hunter who goes on the hunt for his stolen pig was too much. Some made comparisons to the John Wick series; others to Mandy , the psychedelic blood-drenched horror film in which Cage starred in The expectation was clear: This movie would be bonkers, so bonkers that only an actor like Cage would take the job.
Judging from those trailer reactions, Pig is not the movie most people expect. It is pensive and broody, mixing a grizzled and frequently silent Cage with sensuous sequences of high-end food preparation.
There is also some punching. Among American actors, he is inarguably singular. Defining his work is weirdly slippery; just when you think you kind of understand what his thing is, he does something entirely different. This malleability is a byproduct of his life both on- and offscreen, and it has essentially cemented his status as a living, breathing meme: unhinged, over-the-top, and unpredictable.
Early in his career, Cage chose to drop the Coppola name. He blazed his own trail pretty quickly. He worked constantly, with sometimes two or three movies coming out in a year. Not all of these movies were good — not by a long shot. But it was clear that Cage could do pretty much anything.
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