Why Nicolas Cage is one of the most fascinating actors working today

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Keith Phipps is a writer who has worked for the AV Club and the Dissolve. He specializes mainly in pop culture, making him a natural fit for the show. Keith just wrote his first book. It's called Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career. The subject of the book is the one and only Nicolas Cage. Cage is arguably one of the most enigmatic actors in recent memory. In his over forty years of acting, Cage has performed in unforgettable classics, arthouse indies, blockbuster action movies, direct-to-video horror and everything, literally every possible thing, in between. Keith Phipps joins the show to talk about his new book and how doing research for it has changed his opinion about Nicolas Cage. He also breaks down some of his favorite Nick Cage roles and shares how he makes sense of the actor's resurgent career now.

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0:26.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:36.5	Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:47.9	My next guest this week is Keith Fips.
0:50.5	He's a writer who's worked for the AV Club and the Dissolve.
0:54.4	He was a regular contributor to this show.
0:57.4	He specializes in pop culture mainly.
1:00.0	So perfect for us.
1:02.4	Keith just wrote his first book and the subject of that book is one that is close to his heart.
1:07.4	Nicholas Cage.
1:08.8	And I mean, how do you write about Nicholas Cage?
1:12.0	He is one of the most enigmatic actors in recent memory.
1:16.3	In his over 40 years on screen, he has performed in unforgettable classics in Arthouse Indies
1:22.2	and Blockbuster action films in direct to video horror and literally everything in
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