![]() ![]() 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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