No magic with Cage
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Since there has been 2 accidents in 3 days on the set of Nicolas Cage’s new movie I was bit worried before my visit.
The set I was invited to was build inside Bedford Armory in Brooklyn. The movie is called The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – a title that is very hard to pronounce for a foreigner like me. Anyway, we were 7 journalist shuttled form Manhattan to the set, and everyone had, of course, different agendas.
The typical challenge when you are interviewing actors is that some of the journalists just asks very stupid questions. They simply just ask questions about the movie. So for me that means trouble. I always need personal juice – because we all know that’s what sells magazines and newspapers.
So here is my gossip from the set yesterday. I spent 9 hours there and got to talk to Nicolas Cage for about 10 minutes. When I finally got the chance to ask him a question (yes the other journalists were all over him), this is what happened:
ME: So Nic – in the movie you have all this magical powers. Did anything magical ever happen to you in real life?
NIC:Yes. But I don’t want to tell you about it.
ME: Ah, ok.
NIC: Yeah.
Then we spoke to 5 other actors that were more than willing to talk to us for about 30 minues each – because they are not famous yet.
Over to the set:
Nicolas Cage arch rival, played by Alfred Molina, was suppose to be thrown backwards about 30 feet, really fast, and land on the concrete floor. It happened so fast, and it just looked so painful. The stunt man brushed off his shoulders and limped away. I am still wondering how much money they gave him for that…
After eating some sticky Chinese food, some fruit, some nuts,some cheese cake and some chocolate cake, I realized that I could never work on a movie set. It’s all about TSA (totally standing around). One of the stand ins told me that it’s better than bar tending, but I am not sure. Being a star – fine, you get all the good stuff. But being the water guy for example (yes, they had one guy who went back and forth poring water on the same spot for hours…) – I fell asleep just watching him.
I was so exhausted just standing around watching the other people standing around – that I ended up just lurking around in the eating section. I found some nuts and caramels. I ate a lot of caramels – and then I went home.
So that’s it – the movie business is really about killing time between takes (or killing takes between meals). And if you eat caramels doing it – you will definitely be too fat to be and actor anyway.
By: Kjersti
Kjersti@inewyork.no
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May 27th, 2009 at 4:19 am
Congrats on the interview, I’ve been galavanting all over New York trying to get one!
Jason