obviously the film involves you poking fun at yourself
really was that a comfortable thing to do well i i
wouldn't you rather say taking the piss you know what i would but i wasn't sure if that was okay
oh my god you look so formal i presumed you were gonna be just at home or something well i'm in new
york i thought i'd have some new york style i mean it looks like you're looks like you're about to
stand trial oh okay thank god i'm not we always love an exclusive but i hope it's not that uh
they're about to go to court well i'm happy to be on your show matt i have not been back to the
united kingdom in so long and i miss it so much i uh i have you i have a modest little cottage in uh
in somerset that i've been really dreaming to get back to but with everything that we've been
contending with it's been so difficult i just i'm looking forward to getting back to your uh side of
the world well we can't wait to have you back in fact i read about your cottage and i read about
you going to that pub on new year's day and buying the local development campaign that was a lot of
fun yeah that's a true story yeah such nice people uh in somerset and uh i've been there for my gosh
almost 15 years now you gotta come back for glastonbury in june paul mccartney's headline
well that would be terrific you know i've never been to that festival i i went to glastonbury
because i love the way the the green hills roll along and the oak trees and i i love the
limestone architecture and i just think the whole area is just so magical but i've never been to the
festival i've always kind of uh managed not to to to attend and uh maybe one day i will i sure would
love to see uh paul mccartney play living in the southwest of england has its benefits because some
of the food down there is incredible i don't know if you've ever tried a phillips cornish pasty well
i love cornish pasties i don't know about phillips but i used to have cornish pasties believe it or
not in santa monica california there was a place called the ye old kings pub on santa monica
uh it was pico boulevard i think maybe but yeah i used to go there as a child and have them and they
were just so delicious you know and i they were the perfect thing to put in your lunch pail to
go to school with i i enjoyed them so much and what about somerset cider and somerset beer is
that something you got oh yeah no not so much beer cider yes cheddar cheese with cider oh trip to the
moon so good oh man well we hope you you could come back soon and sample some local delights
um obviously before then you've got a new film out the unbearable weight of massive
talent which is really really funny and i'm glad you you've thought so i'm happy
it's been a while it's been a while since i've done a car movie man
oh it's great it's really good but obviously the film involves you poking fun at yourself
really was that a comfortable thing to do well i i wouldn't you rather say taking the piss
you know what i would but i wasn't sure if that was okay no yeah well it certainly was yes
you know the the movie is uh both uh like me and also very much unlike me um you know the movie uh
i'm playing a character that's more obsessed with his so-called career than he is with his
family well i can tell you right now there's no version of nick cage that doesn't want to spend
time with his family or his children and i never really looked at it as a career i always looked
at his work you know this is work i always said i never had a career i only had work and i like
it that way um so those two elements are a bit different from the actual me that i live with
every day but the humor i think is pretty spot on i i do like to crack jokes about myself and
i also like to get a bit off the wall and try to make people laugh when i'm relaxing at home so
in that regard it was a nice return to to do some comedy again you know i've been doing all these uh
dramatic movies and i think somewhere along the way hollywood kind of forgot that i did movies
like raising arizona there's something else i noticed in the film when you send a text you
put a full stop at the end of the message i just think that looks weird well i don't
i well i think in the movie i at that point am i not chemically altered on something yeah seanan
i stay at that i'm texting i think so yeah the character has been given some so-called divine
inspiration by pedro's uh javi so i i'm sure he's not doing anything appropriately at that point
but do you do that in real life do you put full stops at the end of your texts
no i know because it does look weird doesn't it something about it was visibly jarring i felt and
i don't i don't use lol i don't i just i'm not a lull kind of guy i just do ha ha ha ha ha or ah
hahaha i take the time to put the whole thing out if i were actually laughing and i don't use emojis
i just i can't you i can't bring myself to doing that to do that i'm so cause i do the hahaha thing
as well uh yeah because i always think good man looks sarcastic you know you get a little it just
it just looks it just looks absurd i mean lol lol you know i i i just know what
i don't like it i i'm gonna go on record with that i'm so pleased um you mentioned obviously
a time in england earlier uh our great love in this country and on this show is football
have you adopted an english football or soccer team i'm sorry to tell you i haven't i'm too uh
i'm too boring i'm just into my movies i i what did i what do i i have my list here this is what
i was doing during football season i was watching curacao's drunken angel the bad sleep well high
and low to desk down through a glass darkly persona the virgin spring cries and whispers that
that was what i was doing i should probably take a break from that and get into some football do
you recommend anything that i should uh any teams yes we recommend a team called nottingham forest
who you may have heard of they used to be very good we won the european cup twice
and we're on the verge of promotion back to the premier league well that's congratulations and uh
that's that's a that's a wonderful name to live up to so yeah i'll check them out i mean it's
the sort of thing i can imagine a film being made about if it comes off we have a wonderful manager
called steve cooper i mean if someone got the right script if a budget could be found would
you play steve cooper in the hollywood version of forrest's promotion back to the premier league
well i can't answer that because i don't know anything really about mr cooper but i mean i'm
open to anything if it's a good script well sure he's welsh um he's a fantastic football manager
um he's very charismatic he's a he's a great psychologist he's um a very friendly man a very
kind man i mean these all feel like attributes i feel like you could channel well thank you well
he sounds like a top man i mean i'll i'll look into it if somebody has a script send it my way
obviously obviously if it ends in failure the film may not get made so i mean this
this could just be a pipe dream nicholas pipe dreams are good i like pipe dreams
we gotta dream about something right especially in this day and age
nicholas this has been an absolute privilege thank you so much for
joining us thank you cheers mate i'll see you sometime i hope so i hope so