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Nicolas Cage Reveals Why He Took Roles in Older Movies He Knew Were Terrible · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: If you work long enough as an actor in Hollywood,
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  Speaker 2: there's a decent chance you'll make some great movies and
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  Speaker 2: some duds. And Nicholas Cage openly admits not every project
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  Speaker 2: he started in is exactly a must see, particularly in
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  Speaker 2: the twenty ten when he seemed to sign on to
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  Speaker 2: any VOD movie he was offered. But he tells sixty
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  Speaker 2: Minutes he has zero regrets because it was necessary to
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  Speaker 2: stay afloat, saying I was over invested in real estate.
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  Speaker 2: The real estate market crash and I couldn't get out
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  Speaker 2: in time. I paid them all back, but it was
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  Speaker 2: about six million dollars. I never filed for bankruptcy. It
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  Speaker 2: was dark, sure, but work was always my guardian angel.
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  Speaker 2: It may not have been blue chip work, but it
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  Speaker 2: was still work. Even if the movie ultimately turned out crummy.
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  Speaker 2: They know I'm not phoning it in and that I
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  Speaker 2: care every time. Nick ads while some of those movies
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  Speaker 2: were bad, being forced to take creative risks led him
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  Speaker 2: to making some films he considers among the best he's
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  Speaker 2: ever made, including Mandy Pig and The Unbearable Weights of
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  Speaker 2: Massive Talent. Renfield is in theaters.
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  Speaker 1: Now, that's direct from Hollywood