Nicolas Cage refuses to watch himself in the "too whacked out" The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
In the film, Cage plays a "highly neurotic, anxiety-ridden" version of himself
Nicolas Cage has made quite the acting career from playing whacked out weirdos, but one particular role has proven to be too much for him. In The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent, he plays a “highly neurotic, anxiety-ridden” version of himself. But when it comes to actually watching himself play the extremely meta role, well, Cage admits it would be too much of a “whacked-out trip.”
In the Tom Gormican-directed action-comedy, Cage stars as a metafictional version of himself, who takes on a final acting performance with a $1 million payday. The gig involves performing the iconic characters from his career at the birthday party of a Mexican billionaire and notorious drug lord (played by Pedro Pascal), who also happens to be a Cage superfan. As expected, things quickly spiral out of control for the down-on-his luck actor.
“I’m never going to see that movie,” Cage tells Collider in a recent interview.
“I’m told it’s a good movie,” he continues. “My manager, Mike Nilon, who is also a producer on it, looked at it. He was very happy. I’m told the [test] audience loved the movie. But it’s just too much of a whacked-out trip for me to go to a movie theater and watch me play [director] Tom Gormican’s highly-neurotic, anxiety-ridden version of me.”
