Fear not, for as long as there are movies, there will be Nicolas Cage.
In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, the 57-year-old Pig star vowed never to retire from acting, calling the profession his "guardian angel."
"I'm healthier when I'm working, I need a positive place to express my life experience, and filmmaking has given me that. So I'm never going to retire. Where are we now, 117 movies?" He said.
"What's funny is, my argument with people who go, 'You work too much,' was 'I like working, and it's healthy, I'm happy when I'm working, and by the way, guys like Cagney and Bogart, they were doing hundreds of movies,'" he continued. That fact, as it turns out, isn't true — Humphrey Bogart starred in something like 50 films in his lifetime, while James Cagney featured in less than 30."
Cage added: "Then I went, 'I'd better check that,' and I went, 'Oops.' Jerry Lewis was one of my friends, and he and I would go and have dinner together, and he would say, 'How many movies you got?' I go, 'I got about 100, how many you got?' 'I got 40. So you got twice as much as me?' 'Well, I didn't know that, Jerry.'"
The prolific actor's most recent role is in the Sion Sono-directed Samurai Western Prisoners of the Ghostland, and he'll also appear as himself in Tom Gormican's The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, which Cage has previously said he can't bring himself to watch.
In an interview with Collider, Cage explained his decision, saying, "It's just too much of a whacked-out trip for me to go to a movie theatre and watch me play Tom Gormican's highly-neurotic, anxiety-ridden version of me."
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent arrives in theatres on April 22, 2022.
In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, the 57-year-old Pig star vowed never to retire from acting, calling the profession his "guardian angel."
"I'm healthier when I'm working, I need a positive place to express my life experience, and filmmaking has given me that. So I'm never going to retire. Where are we now, 117 movies?" He said.
"What's funny is, my argument with people who go, 'You work too much,' was 'I like working, and it's healthy, I'm happy when I'm working, and by the way, guys like Cagney and Bogart, they were doing hundreds of movies,'" he continued. That fact, as it turns out, isn't true — Humphrey Bogart starred in something like 50 films in his lifetime, while James Cagney featured in less than 30."
Cage added: "Then I went, 'I'd better check that,' and I went, 'Oops.' Jerry Lewis was one of my friends, and he and I would go and have dinner together, and he would say, 'How many movies you got?' I go, 'I got about 100, how many you got?' 'I got 40. So you got twice as much as me?' 'Well, I didn't know that, Jerry.'"
The prolific actor's most recent role is in the Sion Sono-directed Samurai Western Prisoners of the Ghostland, and he'll also appear as himself in Tom Gormican's The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, which Cage has previously said he can't bring himself to watch.
In an interview with Collider, Cage explained his decision, saying, "It's just too much of a whacked-out trip for me to go to a movie theatre and watch me play Tom Gormican's highly-neurotic, anxiety-ridden version of me."
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent arrives in theatres on April 22, 2022.
