Nicolas Cage explains what's real in the surreal world of 'The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent'
LOS ANGELES — In his more than 40 years of acting, Nicolas Cage has gone to plenty of strange and extreme places for the sake of his art.
In the 1988 black comedy "Vampire's Kiss," he ate a live cockroach. To prepare for his role as a suicidal alcoholic in the 1995 drama "Leaving Las Vegas," for which he won an Oscar, he had a friend videotape him binge-drinking for two weeks. The internet is filled with lists and compilation videos of "10 Top Nicolas Cage Freakouts," "The 25 Most Outrageous Nic Cage Moments" and "Nicolas Cage's 10 Craziest Roles Ever."
But no role has ever frightened Cage as much as the one he plays in his new film "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent": Nicolas Cage.
"It was hands-down the scariest thing I've ever done in this path I've been on," Cage, 58, told The Times over Zoom this week. "It was a high-wire act, and if I fell, the drop was disastrous."
In the gonzo, mind-bending action-comedy, which is now playing in theaters, Cage plays "Nick Cage," a washed-up,
