It's very risky for an actor who's a bankable star to make pictures like The Weather Man or Lord of War because they inevitably promote them like big studio releases. And they're not big studio movies, they're more edgy, thought-provoking, independent-spirited films.
What happens is, it goes into the computer, and everyone says they can't open the movie because they thought it was X when it actually was Y.
I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola. What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it? It's good to make movies that are tragedies, where people can think about things in life that are undeniable, that everyone has to deal with.
But at the same time, it's also healing to make movies that are entertaining, that are a lot of fun, where you don't have to think about your problems. When I did Vampire's Kiss , I got so wound up. It was so important to me that this vision I had of Peter Lowe's character get on film exactly the way that I wanted it, that I frankly don't think I was very easy for anyone to live with.
Certainly, I was not easy for myself to live with. I remember that I wasn't drinking or anything at the time. One night I felt so wound up that I was about to snap. I ordered a martini. And I just relaxed, and I could tell my body really needed a rest. From then on, I learned you can do good work without torturing yourself. What happens is, you become different people in your path as an actor. When I was doing those things, I was a very new actor. I didn't have a lot of training, and I was trying to make some sort of impact, because that was what was important for me at the time - to get on the map.
There were things I would do that were more shocking, or approaches I would do to try and live the character, because I didn't have the training. But then, as I went on, I started to find other methods, ways to get into characters that weren't exactly destroying my life. On the wild eccentrics he used to get into character earlier in his career. I remember when I met Johnny Depp , he was a guitar player from Florida, and he had no idea he could be an actor.
I said, "I really think you are an actor, that you have that ability. I sent him to my agent and he has gone on to carve out a successful career. There is a method of thought that says it's better to stay mysterious, make yourself an event so when you come out, people have a hunger to see you again.
I can think of some superstars who adopt that principle, where they are very selective. But we are all going to get older, and there is something to be said about doing some of your best work when you are younger, when you still have that virility, something visceral and raw.
I've heard there have been some actors who've regretted not doing more work when they were under fifty. On why he works so much. They're good, but there are not so many with capable single fathers. There seems to be this archetype that if you're a man and single, you're incapable of raising a child, which I think needs to be broken. If you find yourself in that position - like I have - it's important not to give up because of what people tell you.
I was being stalked by a mime - silent but maybe deadly. Somehow, this mime would appear on the set of set of Bringing Out the Dead and start doing strange things. I have no idea how it got past security.
Finally, the producers took some action and I haven't seen the mime since. But it was definitely unsettling. The hardest part was trying to figure out how I was going to entertain you while playing a guy who was completely out of his mind on crack.
At the same time, trying to be responsible so it didn't become an advertisement for doing drugs. The other thing is, I wasn't sure I could play the part totally sober, which I was. In Leaving Las Vegas , I had a few drinks between scenes to get to a certain feeling, to get to a certain truth. But with this I was trying to look at it more impressionistically from a landscape of maybe 25 years ago to see what would come out of that filter of my imagination.
So many directors are so arrogant. For example, Klaus Kinski -- who Werner Herzog has a legacy with -- he was very frustrated with the arrogance. We always hear Werner's side of the story about "Klaus was this and Klaus was that" but you never get to here Klaus' side of the story.
I was doing a scene on "Bad Lieutenant" -- it was in my second day of shooting -- and we all know the imagination and preparation required to think I was on cocaine for the character. There was a little bottle of baby powder, and I'm snorting that. I'm psyching up, I'm psyching up, and he comes up and says in German accent , "Now Nicolas, what is in that vial? After four hours of this you're gonna actually ask me that?
Take me out of my preparation? You would think the director would understand the actor's process and give us the space and the room to do what it is we need to do. I don't want to minimize the effort that goes into having a career, but now with the video age, let's face it, you can write your own stories and you can make your own movies and get it out.
Or go on stage somewhere in a small venue off-off-off-Broadway. Usually it's very cathartic. The hard stuff is when you're not feeling great and you have to do a really happy scene. James Dean in East of Eden , the scene where he's trying to give Raymond Massey the money on his father's birthday.
Oh my God, I have to do this. Nothing else ever affected me as strongly. He's an interesting one. He was there and had some fun stories. I told him how he was one of my heroes from the time he played Evel Knievel. We had cigars, and very expensive bottles of wine were opened, and Jim and I were going, "This is great, man.
It was at that point that George became the fox in the Pinocchio story. He happens to look quite a bit like that fox. I would not want to play cards with George Hamilton.
I used bonds my grandmother had given me to rent a tuxedo and a limousine so I could go to the prom with this beautiful girl. And at the end of the night I went to kiss her and she responded. I was so nervous that my stomach got really nauseous and I said, "Excuse me" and just threw up on the street all over my shoes and my rented tux. The limo driver wouldn't let me in the car. He split and I had to walk home. That was my prom night. I don't like it. I've never gotten over it.
My father always believed that if I was going to have a religion I should discover it on my own and not have it crammed down my throat at a young age. I kind of wish I had some religion. I had some fear that the movie would not get released. I still torment myself.
I have a lot of self-doubt. We were fishing in Napa Valley and walked right into it. There was a huge one coiled in front of us. A bigger one, to the left, was uncoiled, so I knew he wasn't a problem. We had to go over the coiled one, so we felt trapped and paralyzed with fear.
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Table of Contents. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Recent Posts. Life Style October 16, After reuniting with Woo for the disappointing Windtalkers , Cage rebounded with the well-received Matchstick Men The busy actor also starred in director Jon Turteltaub's holiday blockbuster National Treasure , playing an archaeologist-historian who believes a treasure map is hidden on the back of the Declaration of Independence.
In he reprised his role in National Treasure: Book of Secrets. Cage went on to star in big-budget features like The Sorcerer's Apprentice , Season of the Witch and Stolen , which, at best, drew lukewarm reviews. Continuing his prolific output, he garnered praise for roles in smaller films like the crime drama Joe and the violent revenge flick Mandy Cage's relationship with Kristina Fulton, a model, lasted several years, producing a son, Weston Coppola Cage, born in He went on to wed actress Patricia Arquette in , and then embarked on a short-lived marriage to Lisa-Marie Presley , the only daughter of the late King of Rock and Roll, in August Cage followed by marrying his year-old girlfriend Alice Kim at a private ranch located in Northern California in August The couple announced the birth of a son, Kal-el Coppola Cage, on October 3, In , it was confirmed that they had separated following 12 years of marriage.
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