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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is finally in theaters, which means audiences can experience one of the weirdest, most bizarre movies of the year ... and one of the most wholesome. The film stars Nicolas Cage as Nick Cage, an incredibly neurotic fictional version of himself who is going through a bad batch of financial troubles. After losing out on the movie of his dreams, Cage (the fake one) takes a job appearing at the birthday party of an eccentric billionaire named Javi (Pedro Pascal).

The initial trailers focused on the weirdness of seeing Nic Cage play himself (and acting against himself, as he also plays a younger, even stranger version of himself), as well as teasing a spy subplot. The film's biggest trick, however, is how much better it is when it leaves behind its Nic Cage movie homage and its bizarre spy subplot in order to just show Cage and Pascal becoming best bros who bond over movies.

It turns out, this blooming bromance happened off screen as well as on screen, and both Pascal and Cage made it a point to have their shared love of cinema feel as genuine as possible in the film.

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The best and most insightful aspect of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is when it portrays Nicolas Cage as a cinephile who appreciates all kinds of movies, a man obsessed with German expressionism, and one who easily becomes best friends with a strange billionaire when he mentions The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. In one of the best scenes of the film, Nic and Javi praise the brilliance of Film Twitter's favorite movie, the masterpiece of kindness that is Paddington 2.

Speaking to Screen Rant, Cage talked about how important it was for him that his and Pascal's shared love of movies came off as genuine on screen:

He and I, we're both film enthusiasts, we would share ideas about movies and we would talk together about movies. And so, it was kind of like, No acting, please. We'd be off-camera talking about movies, and we'd be on-camera talking about movies. It was just very easy.

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After the premiere of the film at SXSW, Pascal said he and Cage would bond offscreen over horror movies, with him sharing his favorite Spanish horror films and Cage sharing his favorite Japanese horror films, as you do. Indeed, for Pascal, acting as a big Nic Cage fan came easy, as he just had to channel his personal life. Pascal is a huge fan of Cage, and as he told Bro Bible,  It was really easy to anchor myself into admiration and worship. He continues:

There was almost something about, I don't know, reawakening the things that you care about and why you got into it in the first place, because [Cage's] still challenging himself, he's super prepared, he's coming up with new ideas, and, honestly, it was an incredible challenge to rise to but it was mostly a really beautiful inspiration and a reminder of why I had this fantasy to start with and then study and then job. It was because of how he feels and how he treats acting.You’re a crime boss with money to burn and a birthday party coming up — what do you do? Well, if you’re Pedro Pascal’s character in the upcoming

, you dole out a king’s ransom to get Nicolas Cage to come to your party and hang out. And hopefully, you get a few anecdotes about working with Sean Connery in

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Have been released and they look promising. While the film is described as an action comedy, most of the images released so far appear to be from calmer moments in the story. We see Nicolas Cage — playing a fictionalized version of himself — with Pascal’s Javi swimming, lounging next to water, and leisurely driving through the wilderness. You can see the images below.

The film will find Nicolas Cage playing what the actor called a “highly-neurotic, anxiety-ridden version” of himself. You can see that just a bit in the images — particularly in the photo of the pair sitting on a stone stair way and in the image of them in the ocean — when Cage seems to be unleashing a signature, forced, crazed laughter. It’s for this reason, Cage said, that he’ll never see the film.

. Back in July, Cage said he would never see the movie, not even at the premiere. “I’m told it’s a good movie, ” Cage said. “I’m told people love it and are enjoying the ride, but I made that for the audience. It’s too much for me to go to the premiere and sit there with everybody. Psychologically, that’s too bizarre and whacked out for me.” Cage also made it clear to Collider that he wasn’t “this neurotic, high-strung, anxiety-ridden guy all the time.”

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The fictional Nicolas Cage will apparently find himself down on his luck in the upcoming flick, which is why he agrees to the offer of $1 million from Pedro Pascal’s Javi. Pascal’s crime boss is reportedly a Nicolas Cage super-fan — so enamored with the actor he has a wax statue of Cage in his home. At some point things go a little sideways — no doubt connected to Javi’s occupation — and Cage is forced to assume the roles of some of the outlandish heroes he’s played.

. Cage will not only be playing a fictionalized version of himself, but will also play Nicky — a kind of imaginary friend version of himself who is supposed to represent what the real Cage was like around the late ’80s, early ’90s. So a version of Nicolas Cage imagined by a fictional version of Nicolas Cage — talk about meta.

). The film stars Nicolas Cage as Nic Cage, Pedro Pascal as Javi Guttierez, Neil Patrick Harris as Cage’s agent, Sharon Horgan (Pedro Pascal a disagreement with actor Nicolas Cage during a key scene in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent stayed in the film.

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The 2022 movie, which also stars Pedro Pascal, incorporates large parts of the actor’s filmography and on-screen persona into an outlandish story about passion, fandom, and a plot to take down an international arms dealer. Director and co-writer Tom Gormican’s willingness to mix reality and fiction didn’t stop with the script. A disagreement between Cage and Pascal over the appearance of a prop made it into the final cut of the film. 

Isn’t just interested in the mythology around Nicolas Cage. It is entirely built around his career and the ways his work is perceived by the world. 

Cage plays a fictionalized version of himself, and the movie begins with him in a personal and professional rut. Cage plans on retiring from acting, but only after he accepts an offer of $1 million from a mysterious, playful superfan named Javi (Pascal). The two hit it off, but Cage soon gets brought in by two CIA agents (Tiffany Haddish and Ike Barinholtz), who suspect that Javi is an arms dealer behind the kidnapping of a politician’s daughter. 

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The movie didn’t leave a big impression on the industry when it was in theaters last summer, but it ascended in the public consciousness after one scene became a popular meme on TikTok. For those unaware, it goes like this: a concerned Cage is in the passenger seat of a convertible, turning his head slowly to find Pascal, leveling up as a celebrity thanks to

A TikTok user named Vanessa asked Cage about the meme at the Miami Film Festival, where he was honored with Variety’s Legends and Groundbreakers Award.  

“I have no understanding of that, that world — viral. I’m not really online, but I’ve heard about it, ” Cage said. “Pedro’s a great actor. We had a lot of fun together so I’m happy it’s making people happy.”

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Cast received a reversible sequin pillow with Cage’s face and signature. You can see one of the pillows in the scene where Javi walks Cage through his shrine full of memorabilia.

The pillow was added against Cage’s wishes, who wanted to get rid of it before Pascal convinced him that it should stay. But Cage’s mild discomfort played a role in how the scene played out. 

“He points to it, he’s like ‘uh, that’s weird’ and he changed its face, ” Pascal said. “And I was like ‘no, it’s nice and I put it back’ and they kept it in the movie. That was definitely an improvised moment, the one time I was disagreeing with him.”

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Some say to never meet your idols, but Pascal greatly enjoyed his time with Cage. The actor told Entertainment Tonight reporter Ash Crossan that he would “love” to make another movie with Cage. Hopefully, they can agree on the set design next time. 

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