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He's surreal. Not overacting, but mega-acting.
And he's done everything: romance, comedy, drama, horror, superheroes, whimsy, monster flicks. Everything.
You mention "Leaving Las Vegas." Is winning another Oscar important to you? Or is it now more, "Well, I did that. Now I just do what I'm going to do"?
It's not important to me. In fact, I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way. I think that it's ... right now, what I'm excited about is trying to create a [pauses] kind of a cultural understanding through my muse that is part of the zeitgeist that isn't motivated by vanity or magazine covers or awards. It's more, not countercultural, but counter-critical. I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking.
That's an interesting way to put it.
Do you know what I mean? They did no press, you know?
And "Stairway to Heaven" wasn't even a single.
Yeah! And they were the biggest band in the world and they remained intimately mysterious -- because they just went about it their own way, or against what the advice might have been or what the council might have been. And I admire that. And I would like to tap into more exploration of horror films and just everything that I shouldn't be doing, according to representation.
"Shamans were really actors that were just going through stories in the village, and trying to bring answers to whatever the crisis was in the village," Cage told Insider. He cited psychologist Brian Bates' books "The Way of Wyrd" and "The Way of the Actor" as inspiration for his acting method.
"The process itself is about: How do you augment your imagination in a healthy way? So that you can believe you're these characters," the "Mandy" actor continued.
"You don't feel like you're acting, you feel like you're being," Cage said of his unique approach to getting into character.