Nicolas Cage Improv’d ‘Transcendent’ F-Bomb Outburst on ‘Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’

Nicolas Cage’s Noveau Shamanic acting technique and onscreen “Cage Rage” has been the inspiration for memes, viral moments, and even an Oscar.Cage’s most recent role playing a fictionalized version of himself, one who grapples with his movie star persona (embodied by a de-aged “Nicky” character) and his indie arthouse personal taste, now provides yet another already-iconic Cage scene.In “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” in theaters April 22, Cage reportedly went off script to improvise one of the longest f-bombs in film history.

Cage as Nicky yells “I’m Nick f—iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing-ow-wow Cage!” when trying to psyche himself up.“That’s not a direction I gave him,” writer-director Tom Gormican told Entertainment Weekly.

“We call action on this thing, and we’re watching the scene go down.

I have no idea what’s going to happen.

He just does it.

We call cut and take off the headphones,

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