Loads of actors are legends in their very own time. Some stay Hollywood icons endlessly. And solely a choose few, these whose careers transcend eras, reside in Tinsel City’s Pantheon. However there’s just one Nicolas Cage. The Oscar-winner has carried out nearly all the pieces you may in cinema. Partly as a result of he’s seemingly been in nearly each film ever made. However his singular popular culture standing has simply as a lot to do together with his off-screen antics as his performing. There’s nearly no Nic Cage story we wouldn’t consider. He actually fought aliens on the Moon? Positive, who else would we ship? However clearly not each tall story about him is true. And he lastly revealed which of these mythic tales have any benefit. Nicolas Cage joined GQ‘s “Really Me” internet sequence to reply followers on-line questions.
Regardless of social media being “antithetical” to his beliefs (sensible man!), Nicolas Cage sat down to answer on-line inquiries, hypotheticals, and tales about him. Properly, as long as he might stay humble. Which is why he refused to even say the identify of the Nic Cage subreddit.
However there was nonetheless loads of fascinating fodder for his followers. Together with the time he needed to give a T. rex cranium, one he purchased legally, again to the Mongolian authorities despite the fact that he didn’t get his a reimbursement. He additionally talked concerning the very smart, Academy Award-winning motive he handed on starring in Dumb and Dumber alongside Jim Carrey. And he even mentioned “there may nonetheless be an opportunity” for him to play Superman sometime. (Although it could be robust to stay as much as the expertise of being Into the Spider-Verse‘s Spider-Man Noir.)
He additionally touched on why he’s not enjoying Joe Unique, the rationale he named his son Kal-El, and the authenticity of his abs in Ghost Rider. (Completely actual!) Plus, whether or not he ever turns down roles. (He completely does!) And why he initially recommended another person play him in The Insufferable Weight of Large Expertise.
Nevertheless, probably the most telling story is one that’s completely true, however not practically as ridiculous as you may think. In an try to bodily really feel the ache of his character in Birdy, Cage actually did pull out two enamel with out anesthesia. Not as a result of he’s a “technique lunatic,” although. They needed to come out anyway and the timing was good. Identical to the one-and-only Nicolas Cage.