Nicholas Cage Has Accepted He Must Be Both an Actor and a Meme

These days, it doesn’t take much for a Hollywood star to become a meme and have it hang over their career for several years. Nicholas Cage is perhaps the perfect embodiment of this: over the decades, there’ve been so many memes made of his various roles—from Con Air and National Treasure to Face/Off and Ghost Rider. Being Nicholas Cage is a meme unto itself at this point, as we saw with last year’s The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, and just a few months ago with his Superman cameo in The Flash.

During a recent interview with The Guardian to promote his upcoming film Dream Scenario, Cage expressed his feelings on being such a big part of internet culture. In calling himself “[maybe] the first actor [to experience] memeification,” he admitted that it initially got under his skin, largely due to the fact that said memes were ripping moments out of context for a quick laugh. “[Someone] had cherrypicked from all these different movies where I was having meltdowns, but without any regard for how the character got to that place,” he said, “[and] I didn’t know what people were taking from the movies other than that.”

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Dream Scenario hits theaters on November 10. io9 saw it at Fantastic Fest this past September, and you can read our thoughts on it here.

*Dream Sequence is produced by A24, an independent studio that is not a part of the AMPTP. They have signed an interim agreement with SAG-AFTRA to allow actors like Cage to promote the movie.

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