We always hear there's a lot of technical choreography in sex scenes. How did you combine that with the technical choreography of an action scene?

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 475.

What kind of challenges did the 3D present to you as an actor? Also, how does it enhance your professional skills?

Nicolas Cage: “Well, I was very excited at first to see what I could do with the format. It's my first live-action movie in 3D. I was like a kid in a candy store and I wanted to see if I could get my tongue into the fourth row of the audience in one scene. There's a scene in the diner where I kissed the young lady. Thankfully, they cut that out of the movie but I wanted to try to do anything I could to mess with the format.”

“By the second week, it became very clear to me that it wasn't that different than making any other movie with a 35mm camera. That is really a credit to Patrick Lussier because he is a pioneer of the new wave of 3D. He really sorted out all the bugs that might occur with it on his first, My Bloody Valentine, with 3D. He knew where to put the camera at any time so that the actors didn't blow out the effect, because you can do that very easily. If you line up in such a way, you blow out the effect and it's caused a lot of headaches for many filmmakers but not Patrick, so he was very confident. He knew exactly where to put the camera and we really got the movie done quite quickly as a result of his expertise.”

Nicolas Cage: “Well, one of the things I would like to say about the now infamous gunfight / sex scene in the movie was I really had no idea how I would play that scene until almost three or four days before we shot it. If that scene works, it's really because of Ms. Ross, Ms. Charlotte Ross. What she does in that sequence is sexy, but it's more than that. It's actually quite tragic and heartbreaking - the nervous breakdown that she goes through - and it's a total credit to her acting ability to take us on that ride. It took a lot of guts.”

“I had this idea that Milton is a character that would raise more questions than answers and he's the sort of character that would make you ask, 'What is he thinking? How would I do that in that scene?' I was thinking of Kama Sutra positions and what would be a position that would show Milton's sort of anti-divineness because he's not a divine Hindu spirit. He's something from hell, a living dead man from hell. So then the idea of being in the clothes before a gunfight enjoying all the vices, the cigar and the Jack Daniels and the sex to me seemed like it would ring true for a guy that just broke out of hell. So that's how that scene came together, and then Ms. Ross and I enjoyed a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken after the scene.”