Writer-director Michael Sarnoski, here making his feature debut, is particularly ingenious in the way he toys with the public’s expectations of Cage as a performer. And Pig is a beautiful demonstration of what that nuance looks like when it’s properly deployed by a talented director.
When he describes his acting style as "Nouveau Shamanic”, it’s not just about forging a connection to a character, but inviting that character to possess his body and soul. He is someone who remains unwaveringly, fiercely present in each of his performances. Cage isn’t a maximalist for the hell of it. I can only hope that Pig, his latest project, will put a few of those disbelievers in their place. Very few could deliver a scene like the closing moments of 2011’s Drive Angry, where Cage chugs beer out of an enemy’s bloodied skull with the lackadaisical resignation of a dad at a Little League baseball game.īut it all comes at the risk of reducing him to a punchline – and that breeds far too many sincere accusations that he’s a terrible actor.
All these internet compilations of him howling “How'd it get burned?” or “I’m a vampire!”, clipped from scenes in The Wicker Man or Vampire’s Kiss are, on one level, small celebrations of his unparalleled audacity as an actor. I’ve become conflicted about the ongoing memeification of Nicolas Cage. Starring: Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff, Adam Arkin.
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