Only Nicolas Cage Could Tell Stories Like These | The Interview
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David Marchese writes: I’m just going to lay my cards out on the table: I believe Nicolas Cage is a truly special artist and the most original actor since Marlon Brando. It’s not only that he’s capable of delivering beautifully naturalistic performances, like in “Leaving Las Vegas” (1995), for which he won an Oscar for best actor, or that he has credibly jumped between romantic comedies like “Moonstruck” (1987), action movies like “The Rock” (1996) and unclassifiable films like “Adaptation” (2002). It’s that he brings a distinctly postmodern, wildly imaginative and thrillingly risky approach to all of it. This fall he’ll be playing the title role in David O. Russell’s “Madden,” about the iconic N.F.L. coach John Madden. Cage’s outsize style — which has led to his work being frequently memed — also pulls in references from other films, painting and music, both highbrow and lowbrow, and has taken acting far beyond limited notions of verisimilitude or even, frankly, traditional judgments
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