# What happened to Nicolas Cage **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 22, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-nicolas-cage/490343 "2009-03-22T15:58:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-nicolas-cage/490343/101 "2020-05-23T20:31:59Z")
Bumped. Well, he’s got some fans in Cleveland, anyway: [Cleveland Indians secretly hid face of actor Nicolas Cage in dozens of team photos since last year | wkyc.com](https://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/mlb/indians/cleveland-indians-nicolas-cage-face-hidden-team-pictures/95-c910755e-1225-41eb-9507-27e8b1e4d54d) ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-nicolas-cage/490343/102 "2020-05-23T22:06:34Z")
Nicholas Cage was at his best as Asswipe Johnson, there simply is no way but down from a pinnacle like that. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-nicolas-cage/490343/103 "2020-05-23T22:16:59Z")
This is an 11-year-old thread? Why not just start a new one? ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-nicolas-cage/490343/104 "2020-05-23T23:14:28Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > This is an 11-year-old thread? Why not just start a new one? Seven years, ten months. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-nicolas-cage/490343/105 "2020-05-24T00:26:00Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Seven years, ten months. Oops, I just looked at the first post. I’ve been finding myself unreasonably grumpy this month. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-nicolas-cage/490343/106 "2020-05-24T10:38:25Z")
There’s this weird idea that acting is an attempt to recapitulate a person’s actions as they would have been if the circumstances depicted had come to pass in the real world—as if we’re just fly-on-the-wall onlookers to something actually happening. Nothing could be further from the truth, and Nicolas Cage is one of the few actors constantly refusing to go along with this fantasy. I think that alone is genius, but there’s a larger case to be made for the quality of his acting, which is well discussed in [this Wisecrack video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8IfDNHsCLE). ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-nicolas-cage/490343/107 "2020-05-25T13:02:24Z")
I’m a bit bored of the assumption that he must be a wacky fellow who can only do wacky things. I caught Color Out Of Space just before the lockdown and towards the end, when things are getting a bit mad, there was an idiot in the audience who insisted on laughing at every moment of Cage’s performance. Because of course it’s Cage, he _wants_ us to laugh at his wackiness. He wasn’t portraying at all a corrupted human being trying to remain himself under the face of an alien influence. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-nicolas-cage/490343/108 "2020-05-26T01:53:53Z")
I’ve still got time for Cage. The one that was really sad was Jim Carrey, another really excellent actor stuck in money-making movies. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2022, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-nicolas-cage/490343/109 "2022-01-03T16:54:48Z")
Bumped. _This_ should be a real career boost for him. > **[Nicolas Cage doesn't want to be called an 'actor' | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/31/entertainment/nicolas-cage-actor-thespian/index.html)** > > Nicolas Cage knows it may sound "pretentious," but he would prefer you refer to him as a "thespian." ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2022, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-nicolas-cage/490343/110 "2022-01-03T16:59:24Z")
He does a very good job _thespianing_ in that recent pig movie… _“Pig”?_ ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-nicolas-cage/490343/111 "2022-01-03T17:26:33Z")
In his upcoming movie “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent”, Nicolas Cage plays “a fictionalized version of himself who feels unfulfilled. Cage also portrays Nicky, a figment of Cage’s imagination and resembles a younger version of Cage.” So there’s that to look forward to. Trailer: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/uan7h_cHib8/maxresdefault.jpg "THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT Trailer (2022)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uan7h_cHib8) ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-nicolas-cage/490343/112 "2022-01-03T17:30:05Z")
Here’s some world class [thespianing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVCrmXW6-Pk) from earlier in his career. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2022, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-nicolas-cage/490343/113 "2022-01-03T17:35:47Z")
I didn’t notice that it was old until I read in one of the early posts about working in a “video rental store”, whatever that is… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-nicolas-cage/490343.md?page=5)