![]() ![]() The actor says the film is forcing him to look back at some of his previous action gigs because the script requires him to reenact certain scenes from his real movies. Nicolas Cage Admits He Took ‘Crummy’ Roles to Pay Back $6 Million in DebtĬage went on to say the movie “is definitely just me ‘taking the piss,’ as they say, out of myself.” While the characters Cage is playing in the film may be fictionalized versions of himself, it appears the script from Gormican and Kevin Etten will pull from Cage’s real filmography. “There are many scenes in the movie where modern or contemporary – here we go – ‘Nic Cage’ and then young ‘Nic Cage’ are colliding and arguing and battling it out. “It’s a stylised version of me, and the fact I even have to refer to myself in the third person makes me extremely uncomfortable,” Cage recently told Empire magazine in one of his first interviews about the upcoming project. The two get in way over their heads after the strapped-for-cash older actor accepts a $1 million gig to attend the birthday of a Mexican billionaire super-fan. The second is a younger doppelgänger of the actor from when he was a big star who haunts his older self for throwing his career away. The first is a downtrodden actor struggling to return to his glory days. ![]() Nicolas Cage turned in some of the best work of his career playing a double role in Spike Jonze’s “Adaptation,” and he’s set to try something similar in his upcoming project “ The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent.” The meta drama from writer-director Tom Gormican casts Nicolas Cage as two fictionalized versions of himself. ![]()
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