By ANI
WASHINGTON: Hollywood star Nicolas Cage, who has over 100 motion pictures below his belt, lately mentioned that he will not be calling it quits on his profession anytime quickly.
The prolific actor made the revelation whereas speaking with Entertainment Weekly about his upcoming movie ‘Prisoners of the Ghostland’. When requested about taking a relaxation after his subsequent few motion pictures, Cage made positive to make clear he isn’t even considering of the phrase “retirement”.
He mentioned, “That can’t happen. To do what I do in cinema has been like a guardian angel for me, and I need it. I’m healthier when I’m working, I need a positive place to express my life experience, and filmmaking has given me that. So I’m never going to retire.”
The dialog took place after Cage revealed why he has to maintain himself after so a few years of appearing.
“At my age, the job that I have is to stay interested, because if I’m not interested, you’re not going to be interested. It gets more difficult the older we get. So I have to find new ways of expressing myself, new challenges. But I do think, God willing, that once I finish the next two movies, I’m going to take some time off, because I think it’s time to recharge,” he mentioned.
Next up for Cage is the discharge of ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’, however do not anticipate the actor to catch it in theatres.
In the film, the place the actor portrays a “highly-neurotic, anxiety-ridden” model of himself, Cage reluctantly accepts a USD 1 million provide to carry out on the celebration of one in every of his tremendous followers, who additionally occurs to be a Mexican billionaire (performed by Pedro Pascal).
When the celebration will get uncontrolled, Cage should depend on a few of his iconic characters to save lots of himself.
A current article delved into how the star went about entering into character as himself and why he’ll by no means watch the movie. “That is a really great question and I’m still trying to answer it,” he informed the information outlet about how he approached the function.
Cage additional added, “One of my answers is that I’m never going to see that movie. I’m told it’s a good movie. My manager, Mike Nilon, who is also a producer on it, looked at it. He was very happy. I’m told the audience loved the movie. But it’s just too much of a whacked-out trip for me to go to a movie theatre and watch me play [director] Tom Gormican’s highly-neurotic, anxiety-ridden version of me.”
As per People journal, Cage mentioned the director “kept pushing me in that direction,” however the Oscar winner needed it to be clarified that the model of him portrayed onscreen isn’t who he actually is.