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4 days ago · Cage once told Movies about his love of Disney, stating, “Walt Disney, for me, is a magnificent hero, of sorts, because he was probably the most influential artist of our time. He was such an influence that we don’t even think of him, sometimes, as a human being, but he did this amazing stuff.”
Hollywood Actors Nicolas Cage and Emma Stone discuss why Disney inspired the next generation of animators.
Nov 30, 2023 · The 59-year-old actor, renowned for his roles in critically acclaimed films like Leaving Las Vegas - for which he won an Academy Award - has also been known for his participation in a variety of less-celebrated movies. In a candid interview with 60 Minutes, Cage revealed the financial motivations behind his choices in recent years.
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Nicolas Kim Coppola, known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor, director, and producer. He is best known for his roles in various films, such as City of Angels, Bringing Out the Dead, Windtalkers, and The Weather Man. He is also well-known for voicing Zoc in the 2006 Warner Bros. animated film The Ant Bully, Grug Crood in the 2013 DreamWorks film The Croods and its 2020 sequel, Superman in Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, and Spider-Man Noir in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
For Disney, he portrayed Benjamin Gates in the National Treasure franchise, Balthazar Blake in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and voiced Speckles the mole in G-Force. He also played Jake Preston in the 1990 Touchstone Pictures film Fire Birds, Dr. Stanley Goodspeed in the 1996 Hollywood Pictures film The Rock, Cameron Poe in Con Air, and Randall "Memphis" Raines in Gone in 60 Seconds.
Cage was born in Long Beach, California, to August Coppola, a professor of literature, and Joy Vogelsang, a dancer and choreographer. He was raised in a Catholic family. His father was of Italian descent and his mother was of mainly German and Polish descent with some English and Scottish ancestry on her father's side. His paternal grandparents were composer Carmine Coppola and actress Italia Pennino, and his paternal great-grandparents were immigrants from Bernalda, Basilicata. Through his father, he is a nephew of both director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, and a cousin of directors Roman Coppola and Sofia Coppola, film producer Gian-Carlo Coppola, and actors Robert and Jason Schwartzman.
Cage is the youngest of three sons. His two brothers are New York radio personality Marc "The Cope" Coppola and director Christopher Coppola. He attended Beverly Hills High School, which is known for its many alumni who became entertainers. He aspired to act from an early age and also attended UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. His first non-cinematic acting experience was in a school production of Golden Boy. He said he started acting because he "wanted to be James Dean. I saw him in Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden. Nothing affected me—no rock song, no classical music—the way Dean affected me in Eden. It blew my mind. I was like, 'That's what I want to do'."
•He got his stage name from Marvel Comics character Luke Cage and composer John Cage.
•Cage was originally attached to star in the role of Tony Stark/Iron Man in Iron Man during the film's early development, but in the end, Robert Downey Jr. was cast instead.
1."A Complete List of All the Actors Originally Considered for Roles in the Marvel Universe". Pajiba (Apr 5, 2018).
Why he is one-of-a-kind. As a movie star, Cage is nothing if not unique. He emerged before the age of celebrity obsession took hold, but is now embraced by online "stan" culture. He is...
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Jul 15, 2021 · Nicolas Cage, known for his roles in The Rock, Con Air, Face/Off, National Treasure, Ghost Rider, and more, recently claimed that Disney is full of fear and that he's not sure if he'll ever work for the company again.
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National Treasure is a 2004 American action-adventure heist film [2] released by Walt Disney Pictures. It was written by Jim Kouf and the Wibberleys, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and directed by Jon Turteltaub. It is the first film in the National Treasure franchise and stars Nicolas Cage in the lead role, Harvey Keitel, Jon Voight, Diane ...
