From the New York Times, this is the interview. I'm David Marquesie.

I'm just going to lay my cards out on the table. I think Nicholas Cage is a truly special artist

and the most original and unique actor since Marlon Brando. It's not just that he's capable of delivering beautifully naturalistic performances,

like in Leaving Las Vegas, for which he won a best actor Oscar,

or that he's jumped between romantic comedies like Moonstruck,

action movies like The Rock, and unclassifiable films like adaptation,

it's that he brings a postmodern, highly imaginative, and thrillingly

risky approach to all of it. That style, which has led to his work frequently being

memed on social media, also pulls from other films, music, and painting. And I think it takes

acting far beyond realism, or even frankly, traditional judgments of good or bad.

The same devotion to originality shows up in his off-screen life, too.

Cage, whom I previously interviewed back in 2019, is a bona fide eccentric.

His idiosyncratic interests, lavish spending habits, and all-around free-spirited nature

are in their own way as legendary as his highly distinct performances.

To what else can I say?

Other than that, there's no one like him.

The latest evidence is the new series Spider-Noire, which viewers can watch in either color

or black and white.

The show is Cage's first big swing at television.

In it, he plays Ben Riley, a hard-boiled private investigator in 1930s, New York,

who in a very Cage-in mashup also happens to be a web-slinging superhero.

Here's my conversation with the great Nicholas Cage.

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