Getting a major Hollywood star to be in your movie is never an easy task, but it’s doubly difficult when a role was specifically written for one actor.
That was certainly the case with “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” which stars Nicolas Cage as a fictionalized version of himself.The film was written by Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten, who wrote the script before they ever met Nicolas Cage.
In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the two men shed light on the difficult process of shopping a script that only one actor could star in.“We were told that Nick has done these projects before and he’s not wild about Nick as Nick,” Etten said.
“And we weren’t two guys who had a huge body of work that you could point to and be like, ‘No, trust us.’”Despite Cage’s hesitancy about playing himself,
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