‘Pig’ Star Nicolas Cage Explains How He Made an Untrained Hog ‘Look at Me With Love’

variety.com:

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorNicolas Cage knows how to get the best performances out of his co-stars — even if that co-star is a pig.The Oscar winner reveals what it took to get Brandy, the pig that plays his truffle-hunting porker in the new Neon drama “Pig” to act on cue. “Brandy was very payment oriented, she liked to eat,” Cage told Variety at the movie’s premiere on Tuesday at the Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles. “If I needed to go and get her to hit her marks, some food would be put down.

And if I needed a soulful expression, I’d put a carrot behind the camera and she’d look at the carrot and the carrot made her look at me with love.”Brandy had no acting experience before “Pig.” Writer-director Michael.