Then you get into ‘Leaving Las Vegas,’ ‘Honeymoon in Vegas.’ I mean, listen, I’ve really have seen them all.” “Then I went to the theater with my father and I saw ‘Peggy Sue Got Married,’ ‘Raising Arizona,’ ‘Vampire’s Kiss,’ ‘Moonstruck,’ ‘Wild at Heart,’ which starts the ’90s. “We got cable television in my house when I was quite young, so, on cable, ‘Valley Girl’ and ‘Birdy’ and ‘Racing With the Moon’ and ‘Rumble Fish,’ they were all playing,” Pascal continued. Pascal’s admiration for Cage’s 1989 performance in “Vampire’s Kiss” is just one of the many Cage films the “Wonder Woman” star grew up loving. I remembered that scene and his energy, and obviously not deciding to do that, but just wanting a fraction of that kind of chaotic energy to make the scene that we were shooting that day work.”īella Ramsey Worries Pedro Pascal’s ‘Daddy’ Status Has ‘Gone Too Far’ “And I remembered Nicolas Cage - before I ever met him, before the thought of ever making ‘Massive Talent’ existed - I remembered him jumping on the desk in ‘Vampire’s Kiss,’ kind of torturing María Conchita Alonso.

“I remember shooting a scene in ‘1984’ and, in the instant, I was like, what kind of energy do I need here?” Pascal told Entertainment Weekly. Pascal stars as a billionaire who offers $1 million to a fictionalized version of Cage to attend his birthday party in “ The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” in theaters April 22.Īnd while Pascal’s “Unbearable” character has villainous intentions, the “Narcos” alum noted that he previously tapped into an inspired “Cage rage” to play DC evil mastermind Max Lord in “ Wonder Woman 1984.”

As they say, art imitates life, and for Pedro Pascal, playing a Nicolas Cage superfan wasn’t too far from the truth.

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