“Even that look for that particular character, finally seeing it on screen, was satisfying,” the actor remarked in a conversation with USA Today.
Finally speaking out about the unexpected cameo in DC that fans have been speculating about for months is Nicolas Cage.
Over two decades after the cancellation of his unproduced 1998 Superman Lives project, the Academy Award winner, 59, spoke with USA Today this week about his performance as Superman in The Flash.
Cage made a joke about the quick cameo, which appears at the conclusion of the hit movie, saying, “Well, I’m glad I didn’t blink.”
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According to Cage, “If you really wanted to know what I was going to do with that character, look at my performance in City of Angels,” he told USA Today.
After that, “I was supposed [to play] Clark Kent, and I was already developing this alien otherness playing this angel,” he continued. “That is a perfect illustration of the tone you would have gotten for Kal-El and for Clark Kent: Clark would have been a little funnier but Kal-El [had] the sensitivity and the goodness and the vulnerability and all those feelings that were kind of angelic and also terrifying.”
Andy Muschietti, the director of The Flash, recently told Esquire Middle East that Cage was “absolutely wonderful” to work with because he even named one of his sons Kal-El after Superman’s birth name from his home planet Krypton. “He loves Superman a lot. a comic book enthusiast Even though it was only a cameo, he threw himself into it.
Cage earlier stated to Variety in March regarding Superman Lives that “it was more of a 1980s Superman with, like, the samurai black long hair. I had anticipated an extremely unique, almost emo, Superman, but that never materialised.
Cage’s Superman never came to fruition because Burton’s 1996 flick Mars Attacks wasn’t enough of a box office hit, he previously shared. “They were scared at the studio because of Mars Attacks. Warner Bros. had lost a lot of money on the movie. These movies that are really weird, that challenge and break ground, they piss a lot of people off. I think they got cold feet.”