Nicolas Cage
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1,245 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 16 Jun
Nicolas Cage’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I'm glad I did it.
But in the process, I knew I was going to invite a lot of negative commentary.
It was a personal choice of mine that I was carving something that I wanted to bring to life and have it shine in that way.
Francis Bacon famously said in his book, The Brutality of Fact, that it's impossible to record anything as a fact without causing some injury to the image.
So I was actively looking for, at times, the grotesque, like a Bacon painting.
Vampire's Kiss.
Even Raising Arizona, I was challenging Joel and Ethan because I was sticking to my plan that he was going to, H.I.
McDonough was going to have this kind of Woody Woodpecker, Looney Tunes style, which they originally liked, but there were days where they were frustrated and they were like, why did I, why did, you know, I could have cast this person, I could have cast that person.
Then I finally just said, well, why did you hire me?
And that stopped that conversation.
And the results on that, I think, are terrific.
I think that that was a great union.
Joel, Ethan, and myself and Holly, I think we got somewhere together that was remarkably funny.
But at the time, it was right on the edge.
And then Vampire's Kiss, of course, I mean, I was really...
struggling on that one because I had a very specific vision of what I wanted.
I wanted to bring a Max Schreck-like style back into the sort of 80s, yuppie, this is before American Psycho, attitude of like the literary agent who's going to the best restaurants and he's going on dates.
And
And then slowly devolving into a vampire and thinking he is a vampire.
And that I wanted to bring out the Shrek-like behavior.
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