Nicolas Cage wants to say ‘adios’ to movies and try out TV

Nicolas Cage is a film star with greater than 100 movie credit to his identify, however the Oscar-winning actor could also be prepared to try one thing new.

“I feel I’ve pretty much said what I’ve had to say with cinema,” Cage mentioned in an interview with Uproxx revealed on Monday (Tuesday AEDT).

“I would say, ‘Adios’. I did what I had to do with cinema and I want to move on now,” he later added.

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Currently starring in Dream Scenario, Cage has 4 extra movie initiatives he is slated to seem in – considered one of which, The Surfer, was filmed in Western Australia.

Cage was noticed in an Asian grocery retailer in Busselton earlier this yr whereas in Australia.

Then, he mentioned, he is looking forward to a post-film profession that can enable him to “switch formats and go into some other way of expressing my acting”.

“I am very interested in immersion streaming with episodic television. I have seen things that can be done now with characters and the time they’re given to express themselves,” he mentioned.

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Cage’s credit have allowed him to discover “the margins of film performance” in each style, he mentioned, however feels he might not have “anything else to learn in cinema”.

Describing himself as a pupil, Cage is looking for extra.

“I might have something to learn in television,” he mentioned.

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While a format swap is interesting to Cage, the 59-year-old additionally needs to spend extra high quality time together with his household, together with his new child daughter that he shares with spouse Riko Shibata.

“What’s important is my children,” Cage mentioned.

“I can find an episodic show to do that stays in one place where I don’t have to keep leaving, we can all be together. That, on a personal level, would be great.”