Nicolas Cage Ready To Quit Doing Movies: “Maybe Three Or Four More”
deadline.comNicolas Cage wants to do TV. In fact, after another few movies, the Oscar-winning actor said in a recent interview that he only wants to do TV — unless something very special or a revisitation of one of his favorite big-screen roles, like sequels to Face/Off or Ghost Rider, emerges.
Cage said that he does not watch TV much, but his son finally convinced him to catch Breaking Bad last year. He called the series “magnificent,” and said it got him interested in doing quality work episodically. “I do want to explore other formats,” Cage told Uproxx. “I am very interested in immersion streaming with episodic television.
I have seen things that can be done now with characters and the time they’re given to express themselves. I saw Bryan Cranston stare at a suitcase for an hour on one episode of Breaking Bad.
We don’t have time to do that in a feature film, so maybe television is the next best step for me. We’ll see.” As for film, “after 45 years of doing this; that in over 100 movies – I feel I’ve pretty much said what I’ve had to say with cinema.
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