Nicolas Cage felt “marginalised” by movie studios “after a couple of flops”.
Nicolas Cage felt marginalised after box office bombs
The 57-year-old star – who was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1998 and has won plenty of accolades for his performances on the big screen – revealed how he decided to take a different approach to his career after he saw a change in attitude towards him as an actor.
He said: “I knew after a couple of flops that I had been marginalized in the studio system; and I wasn’t going to get invited by them.”
However, he heaped praise on ‘Pig’ director Michael Sarnoski – who is at the helm of a feature film for the first time with the emotional drama – for taking a chance, and described him as his “Archangel”.
Speaking on an episode of Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast, he added: “I always knew that it would take a young filmmaker who would come back or remember some movies I had made and know that I might be right for his script and rediscover me.
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“And that’s why he’s not just Michael, he’s Archangel Michael. This wouldn’t be happening if he didn’t have the open mind to say, ‘Come with me.’ ”
Cage also recalled working on 1997 action thriller ‘Face/Off’ – in which he stared alongside John Travolta – and revealed one particular moment where the lines of reality and fiction became blurred for him as he played serial killer Castor Troy.
He said: “There was a moment in there where I think I actually left my body, where I just got scared,
“Am I acting or is this real? And I can see it when I look at the movie, that one moment, it’s in my eyes.”
Cage – who has enjoyed taking on a diverse range of roles throughout his career – has always tried to stand out by taking advice from Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski.
He explained: “Stanislavski said the worst thing an actor can do is imitate. Being a bit of a rebel, I wanted to break that rule.
“So I tried with ‘Wild at Heart,’ a Warhol-like approach to the Sailor Ripley character. In movies, like ‘Prisoners of the Ghost Land’ or even ‘Face/Off’ or ‘Vampire’s Kiss,’ I was experimenting with what I would like to call Western Kabuki or more Baroque or operatic style of film performance.
“Break free from the naturalism, so to speak, and express a larger way of performance.”
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