Nicolas Cage talks about his first reaction to his new movie

Nicolas Cage, whose career is taking a new turn, shared his first reaction to the offer to star in the comedy action film "The Unbearable Burden of Great Talent," in which he plays a version of himself. According to the actor, after reading the script, he came to be "absolutely terrified."
Not a muscle in my body told me that I should play a character named Nick Cage, it was an absolute horror," the actor admitted at the New York premiere of the film on Sunday, April 10, 2022. - Nevertheless, the director wrote me a very clever, touching letter, and I knew from that letter that he was a real film buff. He wanted to make a movie about people, not caricatures of people."
Like the real Cage, Nick Cage of the film is a world-famous actor, but he is about to retire, "an extremely neurotic and anxious man." Before he leaves the profession for good, Nick Cage accepts an offer from a billionaire fan (Pedro Pascal) to attend his birthday party. However, the superfan turns out to be a super criminal mastermind, and Cage is forced to escape using the skills he learned on the action movie set.
I had to balance it out. It was like I was on a high-tensioned rope, and if I slipped, the fall would be quite palpable. I had to simplify the so-called Nick Cage," the actor said.
Cage just wanted to make sure we weren't going to make fun of him or make fun of what he was doing. We took it seriously, and once he realized that, he became more and more comfortable with co-screenwriter Kevin Etten and me as the director," Tom Gormican shared his thoughts. - I think he was a little confused until he realized. "We told him, 'People have their own idea of you, there's the real you, and somewhere in the middle is our hero from the movie.' We said we'd take control of the narrative and he'd have a chance to present a real big performance. Once he looked at it from that angle, he started to come around."
The film premiered at the SXSW festival in March, and the comedy action film will be released worldwide in April 2022.