{"id":66992,"date":"2023-09-10T00:27:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T00:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rapidcelnews.com\/?p=66992"},"modified":"2023-09-10T00:27:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T00:27:18","slug":"nicolas-cage-on-how-his-memeification-became-lead-turning-into-gold-with-dream-scenario-tiff-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rapidcelnews.com\/tv-movies\/nicolas-cage-on-how-his-memeification-became-lead-turning-into-gold-with-dream-scenario-tiff-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicolas Cage On How His Memeification Became Lead Turning Into Gold With Dream Scenario TIFF Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"
A24 after a raucous Midnight Madness premiere of Dicks the Musical <\/em>brought the funny again tonight with the world premiere of Kristopher Borgli’s Dream Scenario, <\/em>another ode and self satire of Oscar winner Nicolas Cage if there ever was one. <\/p>\n Cage said onstage tonight that Dream Scenario <\/em>was one of a few projects in his career, that after reading it and seeing it “perfect on the page,” he had to play it; the other titles being Raising Arizona, Vampire’s Kiss<\/em>, and Leaving Las Vegas. <\/em>The pic follows Paul Matthews, a humdrum professor, who starts appearing in other people’s dreams, both sexually and brutally. Matthews becomes something of a social media sensation, err meme, and that was something that Cage could relate to. <\/p>\n Breaking News<\/span><\/p>\n Breaking News<\/span><\/p>\n <\/em>“Well, in the name of Thespis, it was no acting please,” Cage said about the role. <\/p>\n “I felt like I had the life experience,” the Oscar winner continued. <\/p>\n “What had happened to me, I might have been the first actor who woke up one morning and somebody put a montage of me having meltdown moments and freaking out, and cherry-picking from different movies and then put it online, I think it was called ‘Nicolas Cage Loses His Shit’. And then it went viral overnight around the world and I kept looking at ‘What is happening to me?’”<\/p>\n Talking about that video, Cage said, “It kept growing exponentially…nothing I could do, could stop it.”<\/p>\n “I couldn’t stop it legally; I couldn’t stop it anyway.” <\/p>\n “I sat there, and it started going in this memeification, with photoshopping and T-shirts, and I said, ‘I gotta put this somewhere, and then I read Dream Scenario <\/em>and I said ‘Yes, now I can turn this lead into a little bit of gold!’”<\/p>\n Borgli also the wrote the zany comedy, which is produced by Ari Aster.<\/p>\n The pic hits theaters on Nov. 10. <\/p>\n Check out highlights from the premiere here:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\nRelated Stories<\/h3>\n
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