The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (in theaters April 22) has a 100 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and is a continuation of a career renaissance for Cage that began with 2021’s brilliant Pig. And then because of my fear, and my belief that that which you are afraid of - within reason, as long as you aren’t hurting yourself or someone else - is the very thing you should go towards because you might learn something, I said, ‘Yes.'” “I wanted to have a little more depth to it, and Tom expressed to me that he had a genuine interest in some of my earlier work. “I didn’t want it to be something that was strictly mocking or like an SNL sketch,” Cage tells Rolling Stone. He started to budge a bit when he finally read the screenplay and met with director Tom Gormican, who co-wrote the film with Kevin Etten. There’s even a recurring bit where a manic, Wild at Heart-era Cage materializes out of thin air to argue with modern-day Cage. His fears only grew when he learned that the “Nicolas Cage” character in the movie would be near broke, living in a hotel, quasi-estranged from his wife and teenage daughter, and reduced to making a personal appearance at a birthday party for a wealthy fan in order to pay off his debt. When Nicolas Cage was first approached about playing a slightly psychotic version of himself in the movie The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, he was more than a little hesitant about signing on.
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