Movies Where Nic Cage Was Already Playing Himself
His role as a fictional version of himself in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent isn't the first time that Nicolas Cage has played himself on screen. One of Hollywood's most enduring and generally divisive figures, Nicolas Cage has seen his fair share of both critical acclaim and critical panning. Despite roles in broadly forgotten and objectively bad movies such as Left Behind and Next, Cage has also earned critical acclaim for his films, including winning an Oscar for Best Actor for his role in Leaving Las Vegas.
In addition to his eclectic choice of roles and the broad disparity between the quality of his movies, Nicolas Cage is also well known for his eccentricity. As well as his obsession with matters concerning the occult, Cage's impulsive purchases of castles, islands, and even the skull of a dinosaur landed him in legal trouble regarding his failure to pay taxes. Nic Cage's dinosaur-related bankruptcy is just one of many aspects of the actor's career that have made him a larger-than-life figure, and his reputation for his bizarre off-screen behavior is almost as legendary as his on-screen antics.
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Throughout his long, successful career so far, Cage has proven himself to be an incredibly versatile performer with a genuine dedication to his craft. Though Cage has many detractors, he devotes a certain level of intensity to every role he takes, and in many of them, he uses a little more of his own personality than might be considered usual. The highly-anticipated 2022 comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent might be Cage's most meta role yet, but he's actually spent a considerable portion of his career injecting his own personality into
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