The internet’s love for Nicolas Cage memes is so deep that even the famous actor, who spends all day talking to his pet crow, hanging out with king cobras, and eating mushrooms with his cat, can’t escape them. They are everywhere. Memes, for better or (more likely) for worse, are as much responsible for Cage’s current level of fame as his acting.
And yet, despite this saturation, Cage can still be surprised at the extent to which people enjoy jokes based on him, as was the case when he was introduced to the practice of “Cage”.
During an interview with Variety to promote The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, in which Nic Cage plays the fictionalized “Nick Cage” that makes even the man himself uneasy, co-star Lily Mo Shin explains that she practiced Caging in high school. . Sheen pinned pictures of Cage to lockers, which she said she did out of admiration for the actor (sorry, tragedian). When director Tom Gormican asks what it’s like to “be in Cage Cage”, Sheen replies that it’s “a great honour”.
Cage is then asked if he’s ever heard of Caging and he answers with a confused “no”.
“You understand that this is incredibly surreal for me,” he adds.
Pedro Pascal then informs Cage that Austin survived Caging’s attack during SXSW, to which the latter wonders if this is “real practice”. The interviewer confirms that this happened at her school as well. Accepting that Caging is indeed a verifiable phenomenon, Cage says, “This is new to me. And it happens on TV on the couch in the room with my colleagues and friends.”
He was asked what he thought about it, and he replied that he “will have to study it”, but without further information, “it’s strange. Fun, but trivial.”
However, not quite understanding why people are smearing his face, Cage tells the interviewer that he did call the Caging guy in Austin asking Cage to call him, explaining that the person in charge was “really nice”. and just wanted to talk about cinema. “He wasn’t ugly,” he adds. “He was very civilized and cool.”
I wonder if Cage would say the same thing if he had the opportunity to talk to one of the people responsible for other memes based on him, for example, by deepfaking his face in all possible films.
[via Digg]
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