Nicolas Cage On His Brief ‘Flash’ Cameo As Superman: I’m Glad I Didn’t Blink

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“The Flash” served up a dizzying array of superhero cameos from the various corners of the multiverse, with several  incarnations of Batman (played by Michael Keaton, Ben Affleck, and even Adam West’s 1960s television version), and a few Supermen (including those played by Christopher Reeve and Henry Cavill).

The most surprising version of Superman, however, was the one portrayed by Nicolas Cage, resurrecting a role he nearly played in a film that never got made.

Speaking with USA Today, Cage admitted he was happy to finally see his version of the Man of Steel onscreen after that film, “Superman Lives” was axed back in the late 1990s, due what was described at the time as “creative differences.” READ MORE: Nicolas Cage Says Reviving His Abandoned Take On Superman ‘Certainly Would Be Interesting’ “Well, I was glad I didn’t blink,” he joked of his brief Superman cameo. “For me, it was the feeling of being actualized,” he added. “Even that look for that particular character, finally seeing it on screen, was satisfying.

But as I said, it’s quick.” According to Cage, the angel he played in the 1998 film “City of Angels” offers insight into what his take on Superman would have been. “I was supposed [to play] Clark Kent after that [in ‘Superman Lives’], and I was already developing this alien otherness playing this angel,” he explained. READ MORE: Nicolas Cage Is Finally Living His Dream Of Playing Superman “That is a perfect example of the tonality you would’ve gotten for Kal-El and for Clark Kent: Clark would’ve been a little more amusing but Kal-El [had] the sensitivity and the goodness and the vulnerability and all those feelings that were kind of angelic and also terrifying,” Cage added.