By Last year, actor Nicolas Cage indicated he was considering his retirement plans, telling Vanity Fair at the time that “I may have three or four more movies left in me”.
He said he felt that he’s “said what I’ve had to say with cinema” and had taken film performance “as far as I could”.
Cut to today and out promoting the acclaimed thriller “Longlegs,” he tells The New Yorker that his retirement timetable isn’t quite so locked down:
“Well, I did two or three very supporting roles. So maybe three or four more lead roles. Maybe that’s more of what I was saying.”
Cage adds that he considers his role in “Longlegs” as a supporting one.
He tells also tells the outlet that he is terrified of AI and hopes that body scans he did on recent projects won’t allow AI technology to recreate him on screen after his death:
“They’re just going to steal my body and do whatever they want with it via digital AI. … God, I hope not AI. I’m terrified of that. I’ve been very vocal about it. … And it makes me wonder, you know, where will the truth of the artists end up? Is it going to be replaced? Is it going to be transmogrified? Where’s the heartbeat going to be? I mean, what are you going to do with my body and my face when I’m dead? I don’t want you to do anything with it!”
Cage is currently attached to star in the live-action “Spider-Man Noir” series for MGM+ and Amazon Prime Video, with the actor confirming the series will run eight episodes long.
One of the big draws for him was being able to have the “time I could take expressing something” before citing an episode of “Breaking Bad” in which star Bryan Cranston stares at a suitcase for half an episode.
“Longlegs” hits cinemas Friday. Check out a new promo ad for it below:
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