I always thought I’d make a great Joker: Nicolas Cage

‘Ghost Rider’ actor looks back at his days as a comic book star

Nicolas Cage may not be starring in as many films anymore but the 90s superstar believes he’d make a great Joker if he ever got an opportunity to play the comic book villain.

The 54-year-old actor, who played Ghost Rider in two films and voiced Superman in Teen Titans Go! To The Movies, said he has moved onto other things as his comic book days are behind him.

“I mean, I think my comic book days are kind of…I’m on to other things, but I always thought I’d make a great Joker and I always thought that I would’ve been a good villain in one of the Marvel [movies] like Doctor Doom,” The Indian Express quoted Cage as saying.

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He added, “For Doctor Doom you have to wear that mask, but I thought the story leading up to Doctor Doom could’ve been interesting. At this point if, I was to go back into the format, it would probably have to be as a villain.” The Face Off star added, “It would be the perfect one for me to go even more off the rails than I’ve ever done before and, you know, it’d be fun.”

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Cage’s latest release is The Humanity Bureau, about which he quipped that science-fiction is a genre “where you can do that and not be censored or punished for it.”

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“Well, as you know, science fiction is one of my favourite genres. I’ve always felt that, with science fiction, you can really exercise your right to freedom of speech and speak to what’s happening currently that may or may not concern you, simply by virtue of the fact that with that particular genre, you can put it in another planet or in the future and you can speak to what’s happening now,” he shared.

“Look at District 9! To me, it was really kind of a movie about apartheid and with The Humanity Bureau, I felt that it was an opportunity to not so much be a message movie, but perhaps reflect what I see could happen down the road in terms of industry and it’s effect on the Earth and global warming and of course what’s happening with immigration.” For Cage, the film was a way to speak about what’s happening in the world today but in more neutral in terms.

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“I’ve always felt that you could do that with science fiction and it’s something that I hope stays strong as a genre and stays very much in the forefront, because I think that it is one of the last places where you can do that and not be censored or be punished for it,” Cage went on to say, in the same interview.

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