I, I--

It's antithetical to my beliefs,

but here I am doing this.

Yes, hello GQ,

I'm Nicolas Cage.

And today I'm going undercover on the internet.

It's actually me.

It's Nick Cage.

Reddit.

- [Producer] There is a subreddit devoted to you.

Have you heard of this?

- I heard about it.

I did hear that Reddit has a sub, something about me.

- [Producer] You know what it's called?

- Yeah.

I've heard about it,

I'm not gonna say it.

[producer laughs]

- That would be arrogant.

"What movie role would've been improved

by casting Nicolas Cage?"

I can't answer that either, because that would be arrogant

for me to determine what I would've been better at

than somebody else.

Next.

"TIL that Nicolas Cage spent 150 million

on a 70 million year old dinosaur skull".

There's this skull I bought at an auction

and I bought it legally.

Here's the MacGuffin.

When the Mongolian government said that they needed it back

I gave it to 'em, but I never got my money back.

So somebody at the auction house should be in jail.

"TIL Nicolas Cage and Gary Oldman were the original choices

to play Harry and Lloyd".

Really?

I didn't know that.

I thought it was Jim him from the beginning.

I know Jim wanted me to be in it with him,

but I wanted to do a little movie

called Leaving Las Vegas instead.

"What would the most annoying sound in the world

have sounded like, though?"

- Wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?

[screams]

- I don't know how to answer that.

"In 1997 Tim Burton wanted to make a Superman movie

starring Nicolas Cage".

"Why can't they just make this now?"

Would it matter how much time I appeared as the character?

There might still be a chance.

Posted.

Wikipedia.

Well, Wikipedia is something that people go in

and they change any way they want.

So I'm not sure all the facts are true in Wikipedia,

but "At 15 years old

he tried to commit to his uncle Francis For Coppola

to give him a screen test telling him

"I'll show you acting".

That's in fact, yeah, that did happen.

And I was met by silence in the car.

Next.

"For Birdie, in order to physically feel the pain

of his character

Cage removed two teeth without any anesthesia".

Yeah, anesthesia.

Yeah, that, that's a fact.

But, so you don't think I'm completely outta my mind.

I had to pull the baby teeth out anyway.

The timing of it worked out,

it made me seem like a method lunatic.

But the truth is it something I had to do anyway.

Next.

"In February 2011, he realized

that he had developed his own method of acting

which he described as Nouveau Shamanic.

He noted, "at some point I'll have to write a book".

Nouveau Shamanic is something I came up with

because I like the French sound Nouveau.

I thought I had a, kind of a fun sound, meaning new.

I had read a book called "The Way of Wyrd" by Bryan Bates,

and he was putting forth the notion that all actors,

whether they know it or not,

are recruiting the same instincts

of the early shamans in the old villages

from hundreds and thousands of years ago.

And I like that idea,

the idea of exploring your imagination.

So that's where that came from.

- [Producer] And have you written the book yet?

- No.

- YouTube.

"Whoever thought that Nicolas Cage would play

as Spider-Man?"

Spider-Man Noir was great.

I really enjoyed playing that part.

I liked it because I was able to bring

some of my own personal interests

in the early actors of the 30's and 40's

like Bogart and Cagney that were in all those Noir films.

So that was fun for me.

And they let me do it, which is unusual.

Replied.

"This is the greatest casting all--"

Yeah, but that, that was something that didn't happen.

This Nicolas Cage as Joe Exotic.

And it's probably just as well.

It seemed like a fun character to play,

but I have nothing in common with Joe Exotic.

- Quora.

"How did Nicolas Cage think about the decision

to name his son Kal-El?"

Kal-El is a Hebrew name and it means voice of God.

It's also from a very famous character.

I think it's a beautiful name,

so that's why.

"In Ghost Rider, are Nicolas Cage's abs real?"

They are real.

And that's why I will never work out that hard again

because nobody wanted to believe they were real.

They wanted to believe it was CGI, which it wasn't.

So what's the point?

"Has Nicolas's Cage ever turned down a movie offer?"

All the time.

I know that's not the urban myth you wanted to be,

but I turn them down all the time.

- Twitter.

"Tattoo Face/Off,

Nicolas Cage versus John Travolta.

Winner?"

Oh, it's gotta be Travolta.

Has to be Travolta.

"Speed round.

Fave Nicolas Cage meme?"

I kind of like the vampire one right off the bat.

This early picture of me.

I like that.

Because it's an early black and white picture.

I think it looks pretty cool.

- [Producer] How do you feel about memes

with you in general?

- What am I gonna do about it?

It's their--

TikTok.

I have no relationship with TikTok whatsoever.

"Nicolas Cage plays Nick Cage".

"What if Nick Cage didn't get the role?"

Well, I think that would've been fascinating

to see someone else play me, which was my first suggestion.

But they didn't want to go for that.

They said they had to have the real me,

whatever that means.

Posted.

Okay, that's it.

I'm signing off.