Nicolas Cage: "I consider myself a shaman"

"Drinking, smoking and sex during the shooting – extreme not happen" – you have all the time to invent something new in response to the same questions that you аск? – No, it's not difficult: I just say what I feel, and about what I believe. So okay, you can аск me the same questions. – Are we seeing now between the avant-garde direction in his career of Nicolas Cage? – I think I moved in avant-garde and abstract direction in his other paintings. More recently, it was the film "Bad Lieutenant" by Werner Herzog. I would not say that this new period in my career, it's just another method or style that I love to experiment. It just adds something new to what I've done since "Kiss the Vampire" and "Peggy Sue Got Married." And that's how I work, but find new genres in which I can express themselves. – What attracted you to the scenario of "Crazy ride? – I think Patrick Lyusse man with a very bold vision, he was going to make a film in which he believed, but I sure like those directors. But the idea of playing the role of the revived corpse was very exciting for me. – Patrick said that when you started working on this film, you have a proper interpretation of the nature of your character Milton. What exactly do you want to lay in it? – I worked on the manner of Milton, together with Patrick, and I think together we discussed and thought through all the details. – I think the entire movie you never smile … – I thought he smiled once or twice (with no hint of a smile). But the idea was that the more seriously I'll be so ridiculous to be looking at me. Drinking, smoking and sex during the shooting – extreme no longer exist. So what if I had while still smiling, I think it would be a bust. I think it must have been very muted, mysterious performance as Milton. – Your film was shot in 3D. How do you adapt to new media technologies? – First, I tried to find new ways to use his body, that would be useful in 3D, to take advantage of this format. That is, do such movements, which could be as much as possible to make me into the fourth dimension, ie, in the auditorium. And then I got used to it, and gave Patrick the opportunity to choose from several options what he wanted. – Do you consider yourself an actor method, and if so, how it changed recently? (The method in the United States called the Stanislavsky system, adapted Lee Strasberg. – Trud-7 ") – I do not consider myself an actor method, or an actor RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. – Trud-7). I consider myself a "shaman", that is committed to the new shaman style in the movie, which became my own style. – Okay. And how does it work? – It helps a lot, so it looks like a catharsis, it's more like entering a trance or something like that, so is his feeling for character. – This method has evolved over a period of time? – Yes, and he became more productive. – It continues to evolve and transform, or you have already reached a level where you know exactly how it works? – It is always evolving and always changing. – It changes with each new role that you play? – It's hard to judge where I find myself after a particular role. It's more like what I'm аскing questions and then get the answers. They come to me in a way that can be named as you like, but for me it is something that I feel almost like a dream. You know how sometimes when you see dreams at night, you get a small gift ideas, and you can use these gifts in their work. – Did you discuss this with other actors? – No. – Do you think the other actors, too, fits this method? – Most of the actors probably did not realize it, but their roots are in antiquity, when some people were endowed with special abilities to communicate with spirits and supernatural powers, entering into an ecstatic state. They served as sources of special knowledge, passing it to others. And those others then went to the villages and discuss what they have learned. This is a process of which occurred performing arts, so that we actually speak to you about the origins of the profession. – Everyone knows that you are the representative of the famous Coppola clan in the movie business. Do you think you did not disappoint his famous uncle Francis Ford Coppola and other famous relatives? – I waited by myself a lot and realized that I must work harder by the fact that I have an attitude to a prominent family. I do not want others to think I was akterstvovat only because he was born in this family. – I was pleasantly surprised that "Crazy ride" lots of humor. You just wants to shoot a reckless comedy? – Yes, so the picture is pretty ironic, it has many sardonic sense of humor. – Is it true that in the beginning you were going to shave their hair and make a tattoo on his skull? – (Laughs) Yes, but how do you know that? – I have conducted its own online research. – This was my original idea, which corresponded to my idea of how my character should look like. But at some point, someone told me that the sponsoring companies or movie studios may not like it. Then I started thinking about itTo repaint the hair in a light color, because our family through my mother's from Bavaria, mother's maiden name – Vogelsang. As far as I know, Vogelsang means "singing bird", my ancestors probably hunted by birds. Taking into account the fact that Milton preys on people, its resemblance to a Bavarian hunter birds seemed to me a fascinating idea, so I'll lighten your hair. – Patrick Lyusse told me that you're a great driver. But how do you become a "crazy driver? – You know, I grew up in the Wild West, I grew up in Los Angeles, where the cars were in the spotlight. Some of my best memories are of driving cars. I do not know whether I am a great driver, but I feel that I can perform car stunts. I rode in the car with his stunt, and he showed me how to do certain movements. And then I got into the car and repeated what he showed me. Sometimes it is better, sometimes worse, some kind of machine I have to listen more, some less. We have to Sete had six cars. One time I drove Charger, and there were no brakes. And it really raised the level of risk. There was a moment when I thought it was going to explode. – Frightened? – No sooner was scared. – "Crazy horse" – is another example of the supernatural?