No retirement for Nicholas Cage

Nicolas Cage will never retire from acting. The 54-year-old actor has an eclectic filmography which includes hits such as National Treasure, Con Air and Leaving Las Vegas and has no desire to walk away from movies to star in “Pizza Hut commercials”.

In an interview with The Times newspaper, Cage – who has endured financial difficulties over the years – said: “Relative frugality is something that I’m hopeful I can achieve, because I wanna have longevity. I don’t wanna be doing Pizza Hut commercials when I’m 75. I wanna be able to continue making movies, whether I’m supporting or playing leads and whether I’m making movies that are deployed on video-on-demand or going into the cinemas. I just wanna continue working and acting, or film performance, if you will.”

Cage can currently be seen starring alongside Selma Blair in the new crime comedy Mom and Dad, which follows a teenage girl and her younger brother who try to survive a wild 24 hours during a mass hysteria of unknown origins which causes parents to turn and kill their own children. And Cage can identify with his character Brent Ryan, who is striving to return to his youthful ways.

POPULARITY AND WILDNESS

He said: “It’s something we all go through over time, where we’re not what we once were. My character was very successful as a teenager in high school: he had the car, he had the girlfriends, he enjoyed his popularity and his wildness. Now he’s a sort of boring cardboard cut-out of a parent that we all seem to turn into. He doesn’t look as good and he’s fitting into this cookie-cutter mould of what we’re supposed to be. There’s a jealously in that and there’s also a sense of being replaced by the children, and becoming obsolete.”

Cage accepts he has appeared in some box-office bombs and critically mauled movies, but all his films seem to be popular in China, despite the reaction in the West.