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Cage 'sells soul to devil'
21/02/2007 12:01 - (SA)
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| US movie star Nicolas Cage at a press conference in Tokyo for his latest movie Ghost Rider. (Yoshikazu Tsuno, AFP)
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Tokyo - Nicolas Cage, who sells his soul to the devil in his latest film, said on Wednesday he has come close to Faustian bargains in real life as well.
In Ghost Rider, based on a Marvel comic, Cage plays a motorcycle stuntman who makes a pact with the devil and is condemned to ride nightly on a blazing bike as he transforms into a superhero.
"I would not trade my soul to the devil," a smiling Cage insisted at a Tokyo press conference to promote the movie.
"However, there are times in life when we make deals with people who don't always have our best intentions at heart," he said.
"That doesn't mean they're the devil, but it does mean that they haven't presented themselves necessarily in the most honest way."
Devilish pacts
The thrice-married Cage, whose most famous roles include playing a depressed writer drinking himself to death in 1995's Leaving Las Vegas, declined to go into more detail on his devilish pacts.
Cage, himself a comic-book fan, said he had always wanted to star as a superhero but predicted Ghost Rider would be his first and last film of the genre.
- AFP
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