Yahoo News Nicolas Cage may retire from movies after '3 or 4 more'
"I’m starting to cement my plan,” the "Face/Off" star says about his threatened departure from films.
Nicolas Cage is a famously prolific actor who this year alone has been seen in more than a half dozen movies including the vampire comedy Renfield, the horror-thriller Sympathy for the Devil, the superhero film The Flash, and two westerns, The Old Way and Butcher's Crossing. So can fans of the Face/Off star expect to watch him in dozens of more films over the next few years? Maybe not. With regard to his professional future, the actor seems to have been inspired by the title of another Cage-starring 2023 release, comedy-crime film The Retirement Plan.
In a new interview with Vanity Fair writer David Canfield, the actor reveals that he may soon stop making movies altogether.
“It’s starting to solidify — I’m starting to cement my plan,” says Cage. “I may have three or four more movies left in me.”
The actor goes on to explain, “I do feel I’ve said what I’ve had to say with cinema. I think I took film performance as far as I could.”
Cage has also been inspired to cut back on his workload by thoughts of mortality and how he wants to spend his remaining time on earth.
“I was taking stock of how much time I had left," he says. "I thought, Okay, my dad died at 75, I’m going to be turning 60. If I’m lucky, I have maybe a good 15 years and hopefully more. What do I want to do with those 15 years, using my father as the model? It occurred very clearly to me that I want to spend time with my family.”
But, fear not, Cage-heads. While the actor is threatening to give up movies he is not going to stop acting and tells Canfield that he may star in a TV show, inspired by Bryan Cranston's portrayal of Walter White on Breaking Bad.
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Nicolas Cage“Maybe it’s time to look at the immersive streaming experience,” he says. “I don’t know. I have to look for the next step and I haven’t found it yet.”
Cage was speaking with Canfield in promotion of yet another of his 2023 films, the comedy-drama Dream Scenario, about an schlubby college professor who starts turning up in the dreams of strangers. The film is written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli who recently told EW how a vision of Cage had visited the filmmaker while he slept just before the actor started shooting his part.
"It was just days before he came to set," Borgli recalled. "My dream was that he had changed his mind about the [character's] baldness and that he wanted to have a Korean pop star hairstyle, which was very big and spiky. So, he came to set with a K-pop hairdo and said, 'This is the only way I'll play the character.' I was forced to make the movie with him looking like that."
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