"I've Read Dream Scenario and I said, Yes. It Wasn't Written For Me," - Nicolas Cage

Dream Scenario star Nicolas Cage had a glorious career spanning 43 years and over 100 films. From action, drama, sci-fi, and horror, the Academy Award winner is a jack of all trades and a master of them all too! Ready to wow audiences with yet another riveting performance, Cage's latest film, Dream Scenario, is set to make its digital premiere in India exclusively on Lionsgate Play on April 19, 2024.

Talking about why he chose the film and his exposure to meme culture, Nicolas Cage said, "I went through this experience online in 2008–2009. I don't know exactly when, but I woke up one morning—I might have been the first actor it happened to—and I googled my name, stupidly. It's kind of a sickness. There was this video called 'Nicolas Cage loses his crap'. It was chaired by this guy, Jerry, who picked all my freakout moments and movies and cobbled them together without any regard for Act 1 or Act 2 or how the character got to that point of crisis, and they just simply made it: Nick Cage is a freak, and he's freaking out. So that became viral around the world so many times more than it says because it had to reload and go again. It led to what I learned is meme-ification. I had not been familiar with memes before. There were T-shirts with all kinds of ‘you don't say’ from Vampire's Kiss. It was confusing. It was stimulating. It was frustrating, because there was nothing I could do to stop it."

He added, "Long story short, I had to take those feelings of frustration and the weight, if you will, and put them somewhere. That's what I do as an actor. And I've read Dream Scenario, and I said - yes. It wasn't written for me, it was written probably for somebody else but I knew how the character felt; he doesn't look like me, he doesn't sound like me, he doesn't move like me, he doesn't dress like me - but he is experiencing something that's similar. I knew I could play the part authentically because of that. If I had not gone through that experience, I would not have been able to play Paul effectively."