Nicolas Cage has played Charlie Kaufman and his twin brother; a doctor named Stanley Goodspeed; and a historian slash cryptologist slash treasure hunter who steals the Declaration of Independence. But now he’s taking on the most challenging role of all: himself. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is an extremely meta movie where Cage, playing famous actor Nicolas Cage, begrudgingly agrees to attend the birthday of a Mexican billionaire (for a cool $1 million), but “when things take a wild turn, the Oscar winner is forced to become a version of some of his most iconic and beloved characters in order to extricate himself from an increasingly dangerous situation,” according to EW.
It sounds wild. I can’t wait.
“It’s a stylized version of me, and the fact I even have to refer to myself in the third person makes me extremely uncomfortable,” Cage told Empire. “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 an acrobatic approach to acting.” Cage described young Nic Cage — the character, not the person, but also both? — as having the kind of chaotic energy that was on display in a 1990 episode of Terry Wogan’s talk show Wogan. “Remember that talk show I went on, Wogan, when I was promoting Wild At Heart? Young Nic Cage will be that guy,” he said. “But this is a very stylized version of me. It’s definitely just me ‘taking the piss’, as they say, out of myself.”
Please enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZTL6lx5Wo0&feature=emb_title
Cage will also “reenact” sequences from his older films, which he describes as “like walking through a Cabinet of Dr. Caligari version of Con Air and Face/Off.” (Get Travolta back, too!) The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is expected to come out in 2021.
(Via Empire)
