Nicolas Cage no longer wants people to say that he is an “actor”

For Nicolas Cage, the qualifier “actor” does not correspond to his relationship to comedy. As he explained during a stint on the Variety podcast Awards Circuit, the star of Times / Face prefers to be referred to using the term “actor”.

“For me that always means saying, ‘Oh, he’s a great actor, and therefore he’s a great liar,’ he explained. So, at the risk of sounding like a pretentious asshole, I prefer the term comedian, because comedian means that you go there with your heart, or with your imagination, your memories or your dreams, and you bring something to communicate with the public. »A dedication to his art that the actor has put to good use in Pig​, a film which allowed him to return to the good graces of the critics. But nothing would have been possible if the director Michael Sarnoski had not bet on the dramatic force of Nicolas Cage subscribed for years to excessive roles in B films.

Archangel Saint Michael to the rescue

“I knew that after a few flops, I had been marginalized in the studio system and that they were no longer going to call on me,” Nicolas Cage continued. I always knew that it was going to take a young director to look back, remember some films that I made and understand that I could be the right person for his script and that he rediscover me. “

And to show how much he is indebted to the filmmaker, Nicolas Cage concluded: “It’s not just Michael (Sarnoski). It is the Archangel Saint Michael ”.