Nicolas Cage was never afraid to take on left-field roles in Hollywood, just as he was not afraid to share the personal rankings of his films with the world.
Thursday’s episode Late Show with Stephen ColbertThe TV presenter asked the 59-year-old actor to list his favorite movies he’s been working on, and his answers might surprise some deadly Cage-crazed fans.
The last list? Pig (2021), mandy (2018), Removing the Dead (1999), bad lieutenant (2009) and joe (2013).
“I’ll start with Pigthis is my favorite movie I’ve ever made,” Cage began. mandypanos movie [Cosmatos] was directed. I love Removing the Dead, directed by Martin Scorsese. I loved bad lieutenant, Werner Herzog. i love the movie joeDirected by David Gordon Green.”
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Of course, with a career like Cage has had in the last few decades, there will be some shortcomings in the list of the best. And Colbert, 58, called out to him about one thing in particular: “I’m leaving. Face/Offbut this is mine.”
“Oh, I like that a lot,” Cage said. “I love Face/Off… you know what’s interesting Face/Off – and I could talk vampire kiss. vampire kiss it was a small movie where I could explore my more abstract dreams with the movie performance. I was playing an insane character who unfortunately started to think he was a vampire from the original movie. nosferatu film. And when you play a character who has lost his mind, he may believe he is Nosferatu. So I have to act like a German expressionist silent movie star.”
“And that was great, those facial expressions and all. But Face Off It was a big studio movie I made at Paramount, and I was able to use what I learned from this little Vampire’s Kiss movie in this giant movie and it worked. I was like, ‘People really like this.
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Throughout his career, which has been on the rise with the hit songs of the 80s, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Peggy Sue Gets Married And moon strike and found it with his first Academy Award, which he won in the 1995s. Leaving Las Vegas – Cage has acted in more than 100 movies.
While his personal favorites are a bit more recent, some of Cage’s most successful films include: national treasure franchise, Spider-Man: In The Spider-Verse And Ghost driver.
As for the last photo of Cage, he appears in the series as the legendary character of Dracula. renfield. talk to VariationThe film’s makeup artist, Christien Tinsely, revealed that they scraped their teeth and used 3D-printed dentures to create their sharp teeth for the film.
“We scraped Nic’s teeth and the dentures were fitted in a way that did not impede Nic’s speech and gave him complete freedom,” she explained. “Nic wanted to articulate and communicate properly, so it was important that the skins were thin.”
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Tinsely, who was nominated for an Oscar in 2004 passion of jesusHe added, “This was the first movie I knew of using 3D printing to make all of the dentures. We jumped head-to-head with 3D printing. We would scan Nic’s teeth and sculpt them digitally.”
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The star of the movie, Nicholas Hoult, also recently said: fun tonight That working with Cage in his Dracula costume and makeup made him feel “really dazed on set most of the time.”
“It really was one of the weirdest scenarios of my life, and seeing Nic Cage dressed up as Dracula completely,” Hoult said. “I mean, it doesn’t get much better than that. So I was really dizzy most of the time on set and I had the best time working with him.”