TORONTO — Nicolas Cage says his personal expertise being the topic of web memes helped him put together for his newest position.
Cage stars in Dream State of affairs as an unremarkable suburban professor and father who turns into well-known when he begins showing in individuals’s desires.
The Oscar-winning actor, whose over-the-top performances and wide-eyed facial expressions have been superimposed on numerous photos on-line, mentioned in a red-carpet interview on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant that this can be a “utterly totally different type of position” for him.
His character is “not a really loud particular person” and simply desires to be left alone to write down behavioural science books. However the actor mentioned he does faucet into his personal relationship with meme-ification and the web as issues begin to flip within the storyline for the “beta” professor.
Dream State of affairs is billed as a social satire and likewise stars Michael Cera and Lily Fowl.
Helmed by Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli, the Toronto-shot movie premiered Saturday at TIFF and can also be screening Sunday.
Cage referred to as the movie a”masterpiece” and praised Borgli’s imaginative and prescient.
“I’m not saying I’m unintelligent, but it surely’s attention-grabbing if you meet somebody who’s half your age and twice as good as you,” Cage mentioned of working with Borgli. “I simply mentioned, ‘Look that is your child, that is your imaginative and prescient. I’m the distant management automobile — right here’s a distant management. You push the buttons, and I’m going the place you inform me.’”
Borgli mentioned the Face/Off and Leaving Las Vegas actor has “unimaginable vary” that helped deliver the absurdist story to life.
“The film is about an strange suburban father who’s form of a boring beta male however he does come to life in a loopy manner through the film so it was actually useful to have Nic’s vary to make this character actually come alive,” mentioned Borgli, who additionally explored the pitfalls of viral fame in final yr’s Sick of Myself.
“The principle inspiration is simply our present tradition and the way individuals can get extremely well-known for the dumbest, strangest issues with out even making an attempt. I used to be desirous about identical to, by chance getting well-known and this appeared like a cinematic and mystical model of that.’”
— With recordsdata from Kiernan Inexperienced in Toronto
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