Filmstjärnan Nicolas Cage har varit på tapeten i och med den stundande premiären av metakomedin The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent och berättade nyligen för People Magazine hur seriös han är med sina prioriteringar. Bland annat kom det fram att han tackade nej till roller i Sagan om Ringen och Matrix för att tillbringa mer tid med sin familj:
"First and foremost ... there's no version of Nic Cage in reality that doesn't want to spend time with his children," he says. "There's no version of Nic Cage that didn't put family first over career. I turned down Lord of the Rings and I turned down Matrix because I didn't want to go to New Zealand for three years or Australia for three years because I needed to be home with my son Weston, that's a fact."
"So there is a huge disparity between that Nick Cage in Massive Talent and the Nic Cage sitting in front of you right now"
Som skådespelare är han också medveten om skillnaden mellan karriär och jobb, där han är försiktig med att inte förvandlas till en filmdiva:
"I always say to myself, 'I never had a career, only work.' What I mean by that is sometimes — and I won't mention names — but when you get into this career-minded perception of one's self it can be a slippery slope, and it can lead to things where you start believing in your own mythos and you start taking yourself way too seriously."
"You become pretentious and then you fall into the realm of diva," he continues, "and that's when mistakes happen in your personal life and on camera."
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent får premiär den 29 april. Vad tycker du om Nicolas Cage?