A solid gold skill (Canal+) – Nicolas Cage: "At first, I didn’t see the point of playing my part…"

A solid gold skill (Canal+) – Nicolas Cage: "At first, I didn’t see the point of playing my part…"

The actor is making a big comeback with his own action comedy, A Talent in Solid Gold…

It’s been a long time since I acted in a good movie. He owes $600,000 to the hotel he’s been staying at since his divorce. It is no longer featured in the small newspapers of Hollywood. Does Nicolas Cage spin bad cotton? Not him, but his fictional alter ego in Tom Gormican’s comedy A Talent in Solid Gold. After some hesitation: I didn’t see the meaning of playing my part. In the end, I was seduced because the film is the product of the director’s fantasies, his view of the media and the internet, as well as the hard times I’ve had in my private life. »

In self-teasing mode

Mise en abyme is quite delicious. This is not a first. Inside JCVD, Jean-Claude Van Damme played himself in Mabrouk El Mechri and rock and rollThe comedy film directed by Guillaume Canet staged his relationship with actress Marion Cotillard. Nicolas Cage makes fun of him, but also kindly pays his fans, who have been flooding social networks with “memes” for fifteen years. For the inexperienced, these are parody images taken from the filmography of the star. ” There are actors who are more famous than me and who are not victims of the same “mémification”! So I had to wonder about this phenomenon. I really felt the need to confront him. It’s because of this movie. A headline return to the icon that Nicolas Cage never stopped being.

nan collector

Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew, who actually introduced himself in front of his uncle’s camera (Peggy Sue married, 1986), avoids taking himself too seriously. But he could! He remains an unforgettable actor Sailor and Lula (David Lynch), Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis), earned him an Oscar in 1996, even Benjamin Gates… (Jon Turteltaub). In order to pay off the debts of his shaky lifestyle, he chained the nanars since the 2000s, and they did not harm his love of profession in any way: “ I need a place where my demons can find a more constructive expression. nor the devotion of their fans! His failures make him, on the contrary, deeply human. Evidence in a solid gold skill.

A solid gold talent is on Canal+ on Friday, July 14th at 21:10

Isabelle Magnier

Source: Programme Television

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