Nicolas Cage

So the double strike hit and I got the phone call and I thought, oh God, please, I don't want to do another commercial.

I had done commercials in Japan a million years ago and I got burned there.

Because it was, I thought it was, you never say never, but I thought it was a toy, this little pachinko machine that my cousin had in his bedroom and we used to play it.

I did not know.

And I asked, is there anything wrong with this product in Japan I should know about?

No, it's a toy.

I said, okay.

And then I turned—I did the commercial, which was fun and goofy and slapstick and what have you, and I got to embrace my inner Jerry Lewis.

But it was basically Japanese gambling.

They don't do it for money.

They do it for toys, and then you could sell the toy, what have you.

And that—I really was—I had umbrage with that.

And so I thought, I really don't trust this as a thing I should be doing, commercials, plus—

You know, at a time I was going through this thing with, like, what would Jim Morrison do?

Well, he only lived to 27, sadly, and I don't know.

I'm 62.

Well, you know, he would not do a commercial, but he didn't live that long, so who knows what would have happened.

But anyway, long story short, I didn't want to do it.

And now I'm older than Beethoven was when he died and Humphrey Bogart and James Dean and all these guys and John Lennon and all these heroes of mine are.

I'm now 62.