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How Nicholas Cage Managed to Play Himself 20 Years Younger in ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. In Nicolas Cage's new movie,
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Speaker 1: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, he tackles what might
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Speaker 1: be his hardest role to date. What makes it particularly
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Speaker 1: challenging at times are the scenes where he plays a
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Speaker 1: much younger, much wilder version of himself. Having to look
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Speaker 1: and behave like the iconic start twenty years younger is
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Speaker 1: no small task, but people who've seen the film are
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Speaker 1: blown away by how accurate Nicholas looks in the movie,
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Speaker 1: thanks him part to a talented c g f X team,
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Speaker 1: but the film's VFX supervisor, Christopher Lance, wants to make
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Speaker 1: it clear the man most responsible is the actor himself.
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Speaker 1: Telling Variety, everything that you're seeing is Nick Cage acting,
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Speaker 1: and we're respecting all the artistic expressiveness that he brought
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Speaker 1: to the role. Really, all we're doing was the d aging.
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Speaker 1: There were no dots on his face, no special lighting
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Speaker 1: or anything like that, and there was just Nick Cage
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Speaker 1: performing no matter what the lighting condition was. We could
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Speaker 1: just take that and run with it. The Unbearable Weight
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Speaker 1: of Massive Talent in theaters that's direct from Hollywood,