What do you bear in mind of that look on Wogan? What was Terry like in actual life? Have you continue to received that leather-based jacket, and the snakeskin jacket from Wild at Heart? johnnysmooth, EddieChorepost and BigAl65
I bear in mind Terry Wogan was a very good man and I loved the interview with him, though I assumed I used to be each obnoxious and considerably wild. I suppose it’s no secret that I used to be selling a film referred to as Wild at Heart, so I used to be form of play appearing to that. I bear in mind, as a youngster, I used to be in a automobile, a man was strolling down the road, and he had a leather-based jacket on and no shirt on beneath. I assumed: “Well, that’s an interesting look.” I don’t know why that got here again to me once I went on Terry’s present, however I assumed: “I’m going to create that look again.” It was extremely absurd and irreverent. I don’t have that leather-based jacket any extra.
I discovered the snakeskin jacket in a secondhand retailer on Melrose in Los Angeles referred to as Aaardvark’s – it jogged my memory of the jacket Brando wears in The Fugitive Kind – and I knew in some unspecified time in the future I used to be gonna put it in a film. I ended up giving it to Laura Dern as a result of she was such a terrific actor, I loved our time collectively on that film with David Lynch, so I wished her to have it.
How usually do you watch Jeff Daniels in Dumb and Dumber and think: “That could have been me?” TopTramp
Never. I bear in mind when Jim [Carrey] wished me to do it. I used to be on the Chateau Marmont, rehearsing with Mike Figgis, preparing for Leaving Las Vegas, which was a battle with Dumb and Dumber. I’m glad they made their film and I’m completely happy for them, however I think I made the appropriate selection.
I used to be fortunate sufficient to be in Warsaw just lately and, by likelihood, discovered a premiere of The Surfer on the cultural centre. There was a Q&A with folks concerned within the film and, regardless of it being in Polish, I think I understood that “eat the rat!” was a line prompt by you … and that you just wished to truly eat it, is that appropriate? Eattherat
Half of it’s appropriate. The half that is appropriate is that I did wish to say: “Eat the rat.” It was a good prop rat – it was made out of rubber, it wasn’t a actual rat – and I had gotten the concept from an outdated Billy Wilder film referred to as Sabrina, where Humphrey Bogart takes an olive out of a martini glass, places it in his uncle’s mouth and says: “Eat it.” I couldn’t cease laughing once I noticed that second. When I noticed the prop rat, I stated, “I’ll put it in my pocket,” as a result of I favored the best way the rubber tail was shifting. I assumed it was amusing, and thought: “I can use this.” I wished to channel it in additional of a punk rock approach than Bogart did with the olive, by shoving the rat in Pitbull’s [played by Alexander Bertrand] mouth. It was a cathartic second. By that time within the film, I assumed my character has gone by means of sufficient struggling and that he’s earned the appropriate to go massive and shove a rat within the man’s mouth.
Mandy blew my thoughts: a blood-drenched, acid-fuelled fever dream. I think you actually let go, as by no means earlier than, with [character] Red Miller. Did it really feel like that? HamesJoyce
Oh yeah. I imply, Mandy is a terrific murals from the artist that’s Panos Cosmatos. I knew once I noticed his film, Beyond the Black Rainbow, that he was a expertise that was marching to the beat of his personal drum. He’s not anyone that folks can emulate or replicate. It was a nice movie and I’m very completely happy I received a likelihood to make it with him.
Apparently you’re a massive fan of the Cornish pasty, and pickled gherkins along with your fish and chips. What’s your go-to chippy order? TurangaLeela2
I identical to conventional fish and chips. Maybe a pickled egg, hold it easy. Whatever is essentially the most conventional fish and chips I can get is what I’m going to go together with.
Fandom is one factor, however does it really feel unusual to have all of these items named after you, just like the Cage-a-rama pageant [Scotland’s first Nicolas Cage festival], and Cage Against the Machine [who fuse the words of Nicolas Cage with the music of Rage Against the Machine]? JohnnyDGoode
I’m not accustomed to that musical establishment. I am accustomed to a arduous rock band out of Australia referred to as Nicolas Cage Fighter, and I think they’re terrific. Their songs are empowering. The lyrics are all about taking possession of your errors, by no means being a sufferer, determining how one can repair your issues. “Re-evaluate your life / Focus on yourself / Look me in the eyes again / Tell me that none of this is your fault.” They’re not afraid to jot down songs which can be about where you must come clean with your errors.
Aussie musician Nick Cave tells a mad shaggy canine story about assembly you. What is your personal psychedelic tackle this fabled assembly of minds? And have you ever, like Mr Cave, ever been mistaken for your almost-namesake? McScootikins
I don’t think there’s a day that goes by where I’m not mistaken for Nick Cave. People additionally say: “Hey, Nick, you were great in The Hunger,” which is that this nice David Bowie film [in which Cage doesn’t feature]. I do keep in mind that Cave was very good. We have been at an animal sanctuary, I imagine – I think Sealy Animal Hospital in Texas – and he was terrific. I stated howdy and wished to shake his hand. I stated: “Only one letter separates us – G. Nick Cave, Nick Cage.”
Which efficiency took you the furthest out of your consolation zone? staypositive
I think the toughest efficiency was The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, as a result of I used to be taking part in a character referred to as Nick Cage and I couldn’t disguise behind it. It was enormously uncomfortable. I felt very bare, and in some methods embarrassed, that I used to be even taking part in a half that referred to himself as Nicolas or Nick Cage.
What would shock folks most about you in the event that they knew you personally, ie, what’s the least “Nick Cage” factor about you? nexus278
I think folks have an thought about me from the characters they’ve seen me play in films. But the truth is, I bore myself. I don’t actually exit. I’m at house on a regular basis. I’d moderately simply spend time with my two-year-old, and I don’t actually go and socialise. Not that I’m delinquent, however I’ve my daughter and I’ve my little life that I get pleasure from and it’s fairly easy, so maybe that might be a shock.
