Nicolas Cage Addresses Being Turned Into a Meme, How It Inspired His New Role

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Nicolas Cage plays a man who gets turned into a meme in his new movie Dream Scenario, which is something that he has personal experience with.

The 59-year-old National Treasure actor opened up about how his experience as a meme informed the way that he played the role while promoting the movie at the Toronto International Film Festival. Read more about Nicolas Cage’s experience as a meme… Nicolas explained that he “had the life experience” to embody the character, according to Deadline.

What is he talking about? He provided a reminder: “What had happened to me, I might have been the first actor who woke up one morning and somebody put a montage of me having meltdown moments and freaking out, and cherry-picking from different movies and then put it online, I think it was called ‘Nicolas Cage Loses His S-it.’ And then it went viral overnight around the world and I kept looking at ‘What is happening to me?’” He said that he realized “nothing I could do, could stop it.” Instead, he waited for the right moment to embrace it. “I sat there, and it started going in this memeification, with photoshopping and T-shirts, and I said, ‘I gotta put this somewhere,’ and then I read Dream Scenario and I said ‘Yes, now I can turn this lead into a little bit of gold!’” Did you see that a surprising person expressed interest in working with Nicolas?