Nicolas Cage

Extrait de l'interview de Nicolas Cage pour le New York Times Magazine le 7 Août 2019 :


"Let me ask you something unrelated: Is it true that in the early ’80s you met Johnny Depp playing Monopoly?

The true story is that we were already friends. I was living in an old building in Hollywood called the Fontenoy, and I think I ultimately rented the apartment to Johnny, and he started living there. He was at the point in his career where he was selling pens or something to get by. He would take my money and buy cocktails but wouldn’t tell me about it. He admitted it later. But anyway, we were good friends, and we would play Monopoly, and he was winning a game, and I was watching him and I said, “Why don’t you just try acting?” He wanted to be a musician at the time, and he told me, “No, I can’t act.” I said, “I think you can act.” So I sent him to meet with my agent. She sent him out on his first audition, which was “A Nightmare on Elm Street.” He got the part that day. Overnight sensations don’t happen. But it happened with him."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/07/magazine/nicolas-cage-interview.html