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News Cage continued from page 7 KW: What do you think of its 3-D effects? NC: I haven’t seen it yet in 3-D, but I have no doubt that it’ll be exciting because this character really lends himself to that format. The idea of motorcycles, hellfire chains and spitting bullets going into the audience just rocks! ‘I believe there’s an infinite energy that emanates from successful people. They’re tireless and have a need to be creative’ increasingly abstract style of acting that I can explore in horror or sci-fi films. I just want to keep going there, and hopefully one day even write a script. KW: Editor/legist Patricia Turnier asks: If you have the opportunity to play a histor- ical figure, who would you like to portray? NC: I’m not really interested in playing famous people. I prefer to create characters. KW: Irene was also won- And I hope I have an exciting enough life dering, what gives you the that somebody might make a movie about greatest joy? that one day. I don’t want to make movies NC: Children smiling and about other people. I was once approached Nicolas Cage laughing. about playing Salvador Dali, which I thought would’ve been fun until I found out that he was KW: Filmmaker Kevin Williams asks: Did you ever con- proud of kicking a blind man across the street. So, I decid- sider writing your own material and or/directing yourself? I ed, I didn’t want to play that guy. There was also talk about think you would be wonderful at both. me possibly playing Liberace, but I heard that Michael NC: Thanks, Kevin. Well, I did have a small role in a Douglas might be interested in the role, and I don’t want to movie I directed called Sonny. I played a gay pimp named get in his way at all. So, I think I’ll just keep it the way it is. Acid Yellow in that movie. And yes, I plan to explore writ- KW: Patricia also asks: What advice would you give ing, but more likely in a novel format. yourself regarding the movie business, if you could go back in time and speak to the teenaged Nicolas Cage about to make his first film? NC: I would say, “Be more careful with your finances, and try to not let them get in the way.” KW: Children’s book author Irene Smalls asks: Are there goals you still want to attain? NC: Yeah, I want to continue in the direction I’m already headed by mixing the independent, dramatic work with an KW: The Melissa Harris-Perry question: How did your first, big heartbreak impact who you are as a person? NC: Well, because I’m a romantic, I tend to take things pretty hard, and I’m sure the emotion of my first big heart- break had much to do with the energy that I put into my performances. So, it fueled my work. KW: The Sanaa Lathan question: What excites you? 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