![]() ![]() But as the movie rolls along, something grows inside of me - an indignation, an unwillingness, a resistance. ![]() ![]() I sit and watch his films and am aware of his energy, his visual flair, his flashes of wit. I am aware of it, I admit to it, but I cannot think my way around it. Plus, I think if David Lynch could cast anyone in any of his movies he would have wanted to have cast Elvis, so I think he was excited to roll with it when I suggested it.” A ‘nouveau shamanic’ actor, inspired by The Scream, Elvis, and wanting to take on Pontius Pilate? There’s only one Nicolas Cage.There is something inside of me that resists the films of David Lynch. I wanted to see if you could do that with film performance. In Wild At Heart I was trying to approximate what it felt like to see Warhol’s marvellous collages of Elvis Presley as a cowboy with a six-shooter. “I tried to get the transformation scene to go right there. “When I did Ghost Rider I was thinking about Edvard Munch’s The Scream,” he explains. While Cage hasn’t yet taken on a musical, he has imbued his performances with all kinds of inspirations from other art forms. I did sing okay in Wild At Heart, I thought, but I’ve since blown my voice out singing ‘Purple Rain’ incorrectly in karaoke bars.” If there is a musical role he could pick? “I think I’d make a good Pontius Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar.” Andrew Lloyd Webber, make that call. “I haven’t done a musical yet,” he says, looking to the ambitions he’d still like to fulfill one day. Speaking to Empire for the Greatest Actors issue – welcoming us to his Las Vegas home for a career-spanning conversation and cover shoot – he opened up about a particular acting challenge he hasn’t yet taken on. And yet, among everything Cage has done in his career so far, there’s still something on his list to tick off. With performances ranging from the most out-there depictions of human behaviour ever brought to the screen, to works of deeply-emotional naturalism, he contains multitudes. There are many things in Nicolas Cage’s repertoire – when you watch one of his movies, you never quite know what it is you’re going to get. ![]()
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