Nic Cage used to be a good actor and now he’ll do anything for money
Poor old Nic Cage got himself into a right pickle.
He, believe it or not, was the highest paid actor in Hollywood was a short period, about the time he made National Treasure I think. He made the classic US star mistake of making a shit-tonne of money very quickly, and then spending it like he was going to make that sort of money all the time – worse still he spent the IRSs cut too.
He bought castles (yes, plural) Islands (yep, more than one) fleets of cars, jewellery and Dinosaur bones.
He claims he was badly advised, his advisers say (and can prove) they begged him to stop spending money.
He says, like Samuel L Jackson that he prefers working to not-working so does one film after another, but unlike SLJ he only does straight to streaming rubbish now, like Steven Seagull (not quite so bad).
Sadly for him he is (or was) capable of great acting – he’s an twice nominated and once winner of an Oscar after all and has made some good films – National Treasure, Lord of War, World Trade Centre, Weather Man, Matchstick Men amongst others but he’s been chasing money for so long now he’s lost all credibility with the major studios, the jobs he has left open to him now are made by people who just want to cash in on what’s left of his image – so he’s front and centre on the cover and doing his shouting gurning thing most of the time.
He might do a Michael Cain at some point, disappear for a short while until we’ve forgotten about him, and then come back minus the hair dye and makeup and play some great roles as an older man.
