Nicholas Cage says he by no means will get bored of those two films

Nicolas Cage is many issues – a Hollywood star, an eccentric, a one-of-a-kind. However maybe greater than something, Nicolas Cage is a film fan and connoisseur. He’s additionally a part of certainly one of Hollywood’s foremost appearing and directing dynasties, and his information of movie historical past is extraordinarily deep.

One yr in the past, whereas selling The Insufferable Weight of Huge Expertise, Cage did a Reddit AMA. He was requested which three of his personal films he would protect for posterity, and responded; Martin Scorsese‘s Bringing Out the Useless, 2021’s Pig, and Leaving Las Vegas – the latter of which received him the Greatest Actor Oscar.

Cage was additionally requested; “which film are you able to watch time and again, and never get bored?” Cage cheekily responded with two films. One was the Studio Ghibli masterpiece Spirited Away, which is a wonderful alternative, we’re positive you’ll agree, because it’s among the best animated films ever. The second is without doubt one of the greatest battle films of all time – Apocalypse Now, which was directed by Cage’s Uncle, Francis Ford Coppola.

Cage beforehand defined at a THR roundtable that he requested Coppola if he may very well be in The Godfather 3, which famously does function a number of Coppola members of the family. “That is very embarrassing…OK, as a result of it includes household. So, Uncle was doing Godfather 3, and I mentioned, ‘I actually assume I should be in your film, Uncle. I actually assume it’s a good suggestion in case you would solid me. I feel I may play this half.’…It simply wasn’t going to occur. Nope, not going to occur. In order that was a film I didn’t get let in, that I actually needed to be in.”

Cage had beforehand appeared in Rumble Fish (1983) and The Cotton Membership (1984), and these are the one two of ‘Uncle’s’ films that he’s acted in to today. Cage is nice in them, however working with household isn’t at all times simple. And dealing on Coppola films is not any picnic – particularly Apocalypse Now, which had one of the tough productions of all time.

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