People are going to run with what they’re going to run with, and I don’t want to get too hung up on that.By: James Kenneth Presley The first President Biden memes: See what he’s signing off on I’m asking, “Am I reading enough books? Am I spending enough time with my kids?” All of that stuff is what the legacy is really about, and the rest of it-like Paul Matthews discovered-is pretty much out of my control. I’m trying to spend more time with my family. I just keep trying to get closer to that. Ultimately, I think your legacy really is your children and whether you were the person you wanted to be. We’re talking about persona, we’re talking about the egregore that may have been built that is not necessarily me or who I was then but who I’m not now, and all of that is conversation about legacy. You know what? This was a good interview because you and I have been talking about a lot of things that are very real and on my mind. You mentioned that you’re about to turn 60. I’ve never met you and you’ve never met me, but in that performance, you’re in on that secret. I want the audience to feel that they’re in on a secret with me and that we have a private connection. I’m taking life experience and applying it to characters, and so I just want to try to stay on that path. What I want to do is to try to keep on this path of projects like Pig and Dream Scenario, where the scripts are starting to kick into high gear and the performances are switching to glide, because it’s more personal and it feels more truthful. What gets you going professionally right now? You want to have something to dream about! You don’t want to know too much about the person you’re going to see in the movie. What about the times when agreements are made? Or are there any such agreements you would make? It’s not natural, it’s a robot, and I think that is very scary. ![]() ![]() There’s no heartbeat in that sound and movement. Second: Where’s the heart? I really believe that people are going to know that there’s no heartbeat in those eyes. ![]() Let’s look at the end game: If I die and studios are taking Stanley Goodspeed or Cameron Poe or Frank Pierce or Peter Loew or Randy or Memphis Raines and they’re just dumping it into a computer and the computer is going, “OK, let’s spit this script out, and let’s put that image here and have them do that …” First: I have no control over what they’re doing with my likeness. What about your performances in other films? As much as I love Andy and Barbara -and I do think they’re great-it’s still not what I was told to do on set. Maybe it was just CGI, but whatever it was, that’s not what I did on the set. I’m not saying they used AI on the Superman thing. There’s an agreement and a mutual understanding and a contract that you’ve gone into knowing both sides and knowing full well what we’re getting into. You said it perfectly when you said, “We made an agreement.” That is the linchpin to it. That is my fault, in a way, because I started out so young and I wanted to create a mythos or perception or persona and just get on the map by making a big noise, but it grew bigger than I had even anticipated. But there’s another Nick Cage who’s this person that some people-not all people-want to want me to be, and he’s kind of a wild man.ĭo you think that comes from the characters you choose, or is it something people have sort of projected onto you? I live my life at home with my wife and my daughter, and I watch CNN, read a book, or watch a movie. I say this without any kind of complaint, but I’ve had this kind of objective experience at times where it’s been like, “What is it that people really think about me?” You know, I live my life, and like anybody else I’ve made mistakes, but you do things or you do certain movies and that becomes your perception, where you’re the crazy guy. Anyway, I think his point was that my persona as Nick Cage has sort of outgrown the man that I am. It can lead to things like myths or legends, but it can also lead to things that are painful and unattractive and unintentionally humorous. ![]() It’s like a channel of consciousness or unconsciousness, where people start thinking about an entity, and they make it grow in a way where they’re all collectively thinking about the entity in a certain way.
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