It hasn’t always been met with appreciation, but that is the beauty of the challenge, you have to stick to your beliefs.” You can design a performance in terms of the size of it, go outside the box, what I like to call operatic. “I was reading books by Stanislavsky, An Actor Prepares, and I was interested in the idea of opening doors of performance in film, so you don’t have to get stuck in one style, which is naturalism, photo-realism. “There was an architecture to it,” he explains. In his new film, Joe, directed by David Gordon Green, the 50-year-old actor beguiles as a contractor employed to poison trees.Įthan Hawke has pointed out that Cage is, “the only actor since Marlon Brando who has successfully done anything new with acting.” It’s a style that came about by design rather than accident.
He was hilarious for the Coen brothers in Raising Arizona, lovable as the Elvis-loving romantic in the David Lynch classic Wild at Heart and mind-blowing as the drug-addicted cop in Werner Herzog’s The Bad Lieutenant. When paired with directors willing to embrace his quirks, he excels. With his mannered speaking and exaggerated gesticulations, he is the king of offbeat. Love him or hate him, you can’t help but admire Nicolas Cage.
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