David Marchese

But then after Peggy Sue got married, you did other performances where you were taking things to places that were probably likely going to be misunderstood.

Was that a result of liking what you had done on Peggy Sue Gotten Married, personally?

But some of those performances that you just mentioned bring to mind a question I had that's going to be a little in the weeds for most people other than you, me, and Nicolas Cage fans.

But I'm going to do it anyway.

So I think one of the innovative things that you brought to acting was almost a kind of sort of like a postmodern, almost metatextual element to it.

where you would take elements from genres that were outside of film and performance and sort of outside of the character you were trying to play and import them into what you were doing.

So I'll give examples.

I remember when I spoke to you last time, I asked you about the scream that you gave in a movie called Rage, and you explained that you were trying to emulate some sort of Stockhausen sonic effect with that.

Or in Face Off, there's a moment where your character sort of goes up behind a schoolgirl and your face raises up and you're giving a Francis Bacon-style look to the camera.

Or in Mandy, there's a scene, I think your character's in a car, and you look quickly at the camera and the camera zooms in to a close-up like a Bruce Lee movie.

there's any number of other examples, like the Woody Woodpecker raising Arizona.

I could keep going, but are there similar examples of you doing that kind of technique that you haven't seen remarked on?

Like, when have you done that and people have not noticed?

So when you're in meetings about doing a project like Spider Noir, do you explain the Lichtenstein stuff?

No, I don't.

I'll keep that under my vest for a while.

You know, I had zero interest in watching the color version.

I have a couple more questions about acting, but before I do, there's something I was curious about related to spiders.

I know you've had a lot of exotic pets.

Have you had a spider?