Here’s a hot take: Nicolas Cage is a fascinating actor. Controversial, I know. His body of work is, of course, unassailable, but with Cage, it’s as much about methodology as it is about the performances themselves.
Phrases like “nouveau shamanism” have entered the lexicon not as a punchline but out of an earnest desire for actor and moviegoers to create a dialogue about performance.
We love watching Cage talk about method because he is so rarely naturalistic onscreen but always, sometimes inexplicably, in perfect alignment with the material.
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