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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?
NC: What excites me is making a positive connection
with an audience where I create something and the public
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