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Nicolas Cage Invited The Internet To Ask Him Anything, And Here’s 32 Of The Most Interesting Questions And Answers

Nicolas Cage, who is very much not on the internet, has just appeared online in a very surprising manner. As part of a promotional campaign for the new movie The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, the legendary actor did a Reddit ‘Ask Me Anything‘ (AMA) where he directly answered average folks’ questions about his life, career, Hollywood, and bees.

While some celebrities appear to be disengaged during these sessions, disrespectful even, Cage approached the whole thing in a lighthearted, honest way and his thread has instantly become a wholesome delight.

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As one person put it: “I came away with my belief that Cage treats his work and audience with a high degree of respect validated. He half-a**ed nothing …, gave us sincere and interesting responses, and clearly valued the experience.”

So to spread the joy, we at Bored Panda put together the best exchanges. Enjoy.

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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This occasion feels even more special since you can’t simply follow Cage.

“I hate social media,” he bluntly told MarketWatch in 2018. “I’m from another time. I’m kicking and screaming. I don’t have Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.”

“I wanna maintain whatever golden age, mysterious aura I can keep because I don’t want to be a part of that club,” he said.

People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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Cage added that online connection is nothing compared to the one we can have in the natural world. “Everything is a tweet now,” he said. “It’s disappointing, especially for someone like me. I wanna meet people, I want to have a conversation. I’m not interested in Instagram!”

Regardless, he is one of the more popular personas on the internet. As GQ highlighted, around 2010, when Cage’s career and finances started to suffer, his performances—which, while colorful, were at least mostly tuned to the movies they were in—were plucked out of context and spliced together into clips like Nicolas Cage Freak-Out Montage and 40 clips of Nicolas Cage screaming in one minute.

People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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Cage took umbrage when he first saw all the image edits and supercuts all those years ago, but has more or less accepted them by now.

“You can’t go against that which is,” he said. But every stick has two ends. The internet lore, as outrageous as it can be, has, in its own way, made him more beloved than before.

His fans even created a subreddit for him, or should we say an altar. It’s called r/onetruegod and its members say they “collect all content relating to the Cage, through which we hope to discern His Holy Word.”

People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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GQ called Cage “a true eccentric holdout in the increasingly banal landscape of American celebrity.” And they make a good point. He’s not posting ridiculous TikToks, flashing his veneers above a faux self-deprecating or inspirational caption, or giving pithy sound bites on a red carpet.

“He’s such a nice man, such a good man, and I think he also got so much misunderstanding,” Face/Off director John Woo said.

People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, the movie we have to be thankful for this AMA, premiered at the South by Southwest film festival last month and hits theaters worldwide at the end of April. However, when Cage first heard the premise of the movie, he was vaguely offended.

In writer-director Tom Gormican’s comedy, a fictionalized, egocentric, down-on-his-luck version of him accepts a $1 million offer from a wealthy mega-fan (Pedro Pascal) to attend a party in Spain and finds himself in a real-life action-adventure and tumbling down a rabbit hole of references to his past roles.

“I turned it down three or four times,” Cage told The Hollywood Reporter.

People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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“I wanted no part of it,” the actor continued. “But when I got Tom’s letter, then I thought, ‘OK, he’s not just trying to mock so-called Nick Cage; there is a real interest in some of the earlier work.’ His tone was more of a celebration of some of [the actor’s iconic onscreen] moments — like being at the bottom of the pool in Leaving Las Vegas or [using] the gold guns in Face/Off.”

People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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Ironically, what really hooked Cage was a part that is no longer in the movie. “It was a sequence where the Nick Cage character goes into a series of vignettes that are all stylized in the German expressionism of The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari. So there was a sequence in black and white that was a Gone in 60 Seconds race in a Mustang, there was the Leaving Las Vegas character in a hotel room. It was fun to make and cool to look at,” the actor said.

“Ultimately, the studio decided it was too far out for audiences.”

People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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So far, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is getting good press. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 100% of 28 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.6/10.

Rafael Motamayor wrote in Polygon, “The Nic Cage meta-movie hits all the right buttons, in ways no one would suspect going in.” Let’s hope this AMA will help it sell as many tickets as it can. Sounds like both the movie and Nick deserve it.

People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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People loved everything about Cage’s AMA and couldn’t get enough of it

It even generated more comments than Barack Obama’s, and the actor was very grateful for the experience

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