In 1999, Nicolas Cage’s colleague and one-time friend Sean Penn took a dig at Cage’s experiments: “Nic Cage is no longer an actor. He could be again, but now he’s more like a . . . performer.” At the time, the criticism angered Cage, but by 2013, in an interview for his film Outcast, Cage came to agree with the statement. “When I act, I hear the dialogue like music and the movement’s like dance. So to me music and dance are performing arts and, by the way, so is acting.” He designs his performances through movement before going on set and then, in the moment, fills those performances with the
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