and then i read the script and i thought the first act really terrified me
but by the times we got to act two and three uh in the in the script i was like well he's really
taking us on an adventure that is quite exciting it's it's it's he's going in i
call him i call tom gorman in this production the mind because it really is his fantasy if you will
you know uh culminating from whatever the perception has been
in the media the internet um you know whatever blips in
my life that have occurred that have gone public as as a result of being in the public eye
and some sense of knowledge of my interviews and the things that interested me in this path
and um that that spoke to me and it was like a fantasy a fantasy of tom cormickin's
interpretation of what my life would be like it's completely fictional it is not me um there's some
there's some elements that that are truthful but but it is a fictionalized surrealistic
abstract comical account of a weekend and i hate saying my name like this but nicholas cage's life
tom and i had worked on a show together and the show ended and he said i have a kernel i have an
idea a kernel of an idea and you know the premise of like nick cage playing nic cage and i was like
as soon as he said it i remember where i was we were walking around a lot and i was like i'm in i
yes absolutely 100 let's do it so as soon as that ended we we basically just started taking walks
and hikes and fleshing out the story and
nick calls us the mind like calls me the mind and calls kevin the penultimate mind because he was
like he was a we tend to analyze and potentially overthink things and i think what was interesting
is so does nick and so when we come up he'd know he was about to engage in like sort of
an intellectualization of the scene which you know when you're directing you want to talk more about
how it's how it's feeling or you know or what we can do to make it better and so he would
be smiling when he said that and he was like oh god they want me to say some more words
you know and he would be thinking about and he'd be like here comes the mind what are you thinking
about what now and you know what was what we found was that we were always interested in making it
better and so was nick and i think he found a way to sort of have fun with that with both of us
the guy did not drop a single line he never flubbed the line he
we had a table read you know a week before the shoot and he was completely off book and he had
so much dialogue it was like he had and he had he had worked out so much of you know what he wanted
to do or he always had a take on the scene oh trampolines did i smash your dad's car sorry dude
there was no movie without nicholas cage being on board that is for sure and then you know it's
about finding the correct uh javi you know finding uh in and you know when we met pedro pascal
he came and he said i you know he hasn't really done much comedy before but he was like i'm a
huge nicholas gage fan and so there was so much of the javi character in pedro that it was sort of
undeniable we had to we had to and i'm a big fan of his and um the characters that he plays or has
played in the past uh seem to be the sort of macho like you know action driven characters they're
real like men and uh seeing him sort of be a be a giant super fan and sweetly talk about what nick
has meant to him uh started to really solidify for us exactly who the javi character would be
oh god oh god we could have died i didn't know that was a cliff we went from up there
to here then we could have died i also want to offer that i had a great cast i i really
enjoyed working with pedro you you couldn't work with a nicer man and and i thought he brought
something quite amusing to the character pedro as hobby has a uh a very unique sense of humor
he would he would he would make jokes about cabbage lettuce patches in the field in budapest
i'm like is that really your version of comedy your humor and it's just it is funny because it's
no one finds it funny and but his character he was i think he was a little meth and he was playing a
character that would find that amusing hope you enjoyed this behind the scenes look at the bear
the unbearable weight of massive talent this film being a meta for nicholas cage i highly
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