1/28/2024 0 Comments Nic cage wild at heartI 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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