What do you keep in mind of that look on Wogan? What was Terry like in actual life? Have you ever nonetheless acquired that leather-based jacket, and the snakeskin jacket from Wild at Coronary heart? johnnysmooth, EddieChorepost and BigAl65
I keep in mind Terry Wogan was a really good man and I loved the interview with him, though I assumed I used to be each obnoxious and considerably wild. I suppose it’s no secret that I used to be selling a film referred to as Wild at Coronary heart, so I used to be kind of play appearing to that. I keep in mind, as a toddler, I used to be in a automotive, a man was strolling down the road, and he had a leather-based jacket on and no shirt on beneath. I assumed: “Properly, that’s an fascinating look.” I don’t know why that got here again to me once I went on Terry’s present, however I assumed: “I’m going to create that look once more.” It was extremely absurd and irreverent. I don’t have that leather-based jacket any extra.
I discovered the snakeskin jacket in a secondhand retailer on Melrose in Los Angeles referred to as Aaardvark’s – it jogged my memory of the jacket Brando wears in The Fugitive Variety – and I knew sooner or later I used to be gonna put it in a film. I ended up giving it to Laura Dern as a result of she was such a terrific actor, I loved our time collectively on that film with David Lynch, so I wished her to have it.
How usually do you watch Jeff Daniels in Dumb and Dumber and suppose: “That would have been me?” TopTramp
By no means. I keep in mind when Jim [Carrey] wished me to do it. I used to be on the Chateau Marmont, rehearsing with Mike Figgis, preparing for Leaving Las Vegas, which was a battle with Dumb and Dumber. I’m glad they made their film and I’m pleased for them, however I feel I made the proper selection.
I used to be fortunate sufficient to be in Warsaw lately and, by likelihood, discovered a premiere of The Surfer on the cultural centre. There was a Q&A with individuals concerned within the film and, regardless of it being in Polish, I feel I understood that “eat the rat!” was a line steered by you … and that you simply wished to really eat it, is that appropriate? Eattherat
Half of it’s appropriate. The half that is appropriate is that I did need to say: “Eat the rat.” It was a superb prop rat – it was made out of rubber, it wasn’t an actual rat – and I had gotten the concept from an outdated Billy Wilder film referred to as Sabrina, the place Humphrey Bogart takes an olive out of a martini glass, places it in his uncle’s mouth and says: “Eat it.” I couldn’t cease laughing once I noticed that second. Once I noticed the prop rat, I stated, “I’ll put it in my pocket,” as a result of I preferred the best way the rubber tail was shifting. I assumed it was amusing, and thought: “I can use this.” I wished to channel it in additional of a punk rock means than Bogart did with the olive, by shoving the rat in Pitbull’s [played by Alexander Bertrand] mouth. It was a cathartic second. By that time within the film, I assumed my character has gone by means of sufficient struggling and that he’s earned the proper to go huge and shove a rat within the man’s mouth.
Mandy blew my thoughts: a blood-drenched, acid-fuelled fever dream. I feel you actually let go, as by no means earlier than, with [character] Pink Miller. Did it really feel like that? HamesJoyce
Oh yeah. I imply, Mandy is a terrific murals from the artist that’s Panos Cosmatos. I knew once I noticed his film, Past the Black Rainbow, that he was a expertise that was marching to the beat of his personal drum. He’s not anyone that folks can emulate or replicate. It was an awesome movie and I’m very pleased I acquired an opportunity to make it with him.
Apparently you’re an enormous fan of the Cornish pasty, and pickled gherkins together with your fish and chips. What’s your go-to chippy order? TurangaLeela2
I identical to conventional fish and chips. Possibly a pickled egg, maintain it easy. No matter is probably the most conventional fish and chips I can get is what I’m going to go along with.
Fandom is one factor, however does it really feel unusual to have all of these items named after you, just like the Cage-a-rama competition [Scotland’s first Nicolas Cage festival], and Cage Towards the Machine [who fuse the words of Nicolas Cage with the music of Rage Against the Machine]? JohnnyDGoode
I’m not accustomed to that musical establishment. I am accustomed to a tough rock band out of Australia referred to as Nicolas Cage Fighter, and I feel they’re terrific. Their songs are empowering. The lyrics are all about taking possession of your errors, by no means being a sufferer, determining how one can repair your issues. “Re-evaluate your life / Deal with your self / Look me within the eyes once more / Inform me that none of that is your fault.” They’re not afraid to put in writing songs which can be about the place it’s a must to come clean with your errors.
Aussie musician Nick Cave tells a mad shaggy canine story about assembly you. What’s your personal psychedelic tackle this fabled assembly of minds? And have you ever, like Mr Cave, ever been mistaken in your almost-namesake? McScootikins
I don’t suppose there’s a day that goes by the place I’m not mistaken for Nick Cave. Folks additionally say: “Hey, Nic, you had been nice in The Starvation,” which is that this nice David Bowie film [in which Cage doesn’t feature]. I do do not forget that Cave was very good. We had been at an animal sanctuary, I imagine – I feel Sealy Animal Hospital in Texas – and he was terrific. I stated hey and wished to shake his hand. I stated: “Just one letter separates us – G. Nick Cave, Nic Cage.”
Which efficiency took you the furthest out of your consolation zone? staypositive
I feel the toughest efficiency was The Insufferable Weight of Large Expertise, as a result of I used to be enjoying a personality referred to as Nick Cage and I couldn’t conceal behind it. It was enormously uncomfortable. I felt very bare, and in some methods embarrassed, that I used to be even enjoying a component that referred to himself as Nicolas or Nick Cage.
What would shock individuals most about you in the event that they knew you personally, ie, what’s the least “Nic Cage” factor about you? nexus278
I feel individuals have an thought about me from the characters they’ve seen me play in films. However the actuality is, I bore myself. I don’t actually exit. I’m at dwelling on a regular basis. I’d slightly simply spend time with my two-year-old, and I don’t actually go and socialise. Not that I’m delinquent, however I’ve my daughter and I’ve my little life that I get pleasure from and it’s fairly easy, so maybe that will be a shock.
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