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Nicolas Cage On Returning To Comic Book Movie Roles: “It’s Not Really On My Mind”


Cage says of his association with superhero films, "It's like I'm still stuck at 12 years old...Come on, I've grown up. That's not who I am anymore."

In the past six months, Nicolas Cage has expressed confusion over his cameo as Superman in The Flash, discussed a desire to do TV and held forth on potentially retiring from movies. This week, in an interview with Deadline at SXSW, Cage expressed indifference at the thought of returning to the comic book genre. My comic book collection just goes viral quickly, exponentially, and I feel like in some ways it’s eclipsed what I’m really reading,” Cage told Deadline, “like [Nikolai Golgol’s] “The Overcoat” or Herman Hesse.

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