Movie frustrates Cage
2003-03-12 08:38
Los Angeles - US movie star Nicholas Cage has revealed that the making of his latest movie, Adaptation, for which he won a best actor Oscar nomination, made him "scream in frustration".
Oscar-winner Cage, 39, said playing two roles in the film - that of real-life Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his fictitious twin brother Donald - was a tough acting challenge that he doesn't intend to repeat in a hurry.
"When I act, I do try to get totally into the character I play and try to think and feel exactly like that character," he told journalists at a luncheon thrown for nominees earlier this week.
"But when you have two characters to play, you can get a little confused. Everything switches back between one or other of the characters five or six times a day.
'Which one am I now?'
"Sometimes I would literally scream in frustration going: 'Who am I? Which one am I now?" Cage revealed.
Playing the double role, the actor was forced to play scenes in which he had to focus his acting on a tennis ball or a cross on the wall which were standing in for his alter ego.
"It was an adventure for me. I have certainly never done anything like that before and do not anticipate I'll ever do it again. I'll just stick to one character per movie from now on," he joked.
Cage, the nephew of movie-maker Francis Ford Coppola won the Academy Award for best actor for Leaving Las Vegas in 1995 and has starred in other hits such as 1997's Face/Off with John Travolta and Wild at Heart in 1990.
The 2003 Oscars will be presented to winners in 24 categories on March 23 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. - Sapa-AFP
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