How fast did you go?
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 448.
What's the visceral thrill of getting behind the wheel of a muscle car, and what's in your garage?
Nicolas Cage: “Well, what's in my garage is a Dodge Ram 3500 Laramie. I have a pickup truck. I like it. It's a diesel Cummins engine, which is the same engine they use in the trains, and it's actually really good for the environment. Unlike the hybrids which so many people think is good for the environment, you actually have to dump those batteries and it actually pollutes the environment, so the diesel truck is a better way to go.”
“Now, back to the movie. I love cars. There's no secret that the automobile and I have had a pretty good relationship. I'm a good driver. I wouldn't say I was an ace, but I'm a good driver. I grew up in the Wild West. I grew up here in Los Angeles, city built around the automobile. I know what I'm doing in a car. I thought it was just a real opportunity to drive as fast as I wanted and not get a speeding ticket, and that's what I did. When I drive in a movie, it's not unlike when I act. I go into a trance. I don't really have skills but I just know what they want me to do and somehow it all works itself out. The only time it's a problem for me is when somebody else is in the car, like Ms. Amber Heard, and then I start getting nervous that if something happens to them that I'm responsible, and then I'm not quite as effective.”
Nicolas Cage: “Well, Amber's still raising her eyebrow at me because I said that I've been 180 miles per hour on the 405 freeway on a motorcycle and she doesn't believe me, but it's a true story. I did it coming home from work at 3 in the morning on another movie I made about cars called Gone in 60 Seconds. I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405, and that's really, really crazy but I did it. In this movie I went about 70 miles per hour at any given moment because we had cameras on the car and that's about as fast as I could push it with cameras on the car mounted down onto the car. But still, it was mostly me driving and going into oncoming traffic. Those were some pretty fun days.”