Director Benjamin Brewer, Jaeden Martell, Maxwell Jenkins, and Sadie Soverall also share fun stories about what it was like working with Cage.
The Big Picture From big studio blockbusters to independent films worthy of praise in the festival circuits, one thing is certain, Nicolas Cage has found his niche and acts on what truly moves him. He is an actor who is boundless when it comes to genres, and at this year’s South by Southwest, his latest is a dystopian horror titled Arcadian. The movie reunites Cage with The Trust director Benjamin Brewer and co-stars It’s Jaeden Martell and Maxwell Jenkins .
It's very simple really. Two of my favorite genres, independently spirited family drama, you know, grew up watching East of Eden, Kazan, Ordinary People, Redford, and then science fiction horror in that category, in this case particularly specifically science fiction. If you mash those two and the...
MAXWELL JENKINS: I think one of the most memorable moments of that shoot, and honestly of my last 10 years doing this, has been when we did the “Are We Not Men” scene. I think that was the first time I realized there are elements that you can bring from your real life into work. I've been fortunate enough to live this kind of super-normal life outside of the acting world. I went to my neighborhood public school. I ran cross country. I did model U. N.
MIKE NILON: I probably should have given a little bit more consideration to the economics of the film when writing it. And I apologized to Ben a couple of times on the set. They're like, wow, this one is really tricky. You're really doing a great job pulling that off. But I did want to concentrate on it having just one location, a remote location, especially since it was during COVID, it was written, and there were very few characters.
I don't say that to kind of, I just say that to, I hope to inspire people because I'm making this stuff on free software on my computer, and it's playing in movies that no one can tell. So again, to the Godzilla Minus One team, I think that there's a beautiful future for these films because they all need visual effects. Like, they all have invisible stuff that enhances performances.
MAXWELL JENKINS: And if I could just add, not that I have any knowledge whatsoever of what it takes to do VFX, but I have noticed, and I think Ben is the person that really cemented this belief, is that some of the best directors I've ever worked with have VFX backgrounds, and I don't know where it comes from, but hearing you talk about this kind of bridging of the camera and the acting, it could be coming from you guys are so dedicated to sitting and watching those scenes over and over...
MAXWELL JENKINS: I'm going to go. It's not nearly as impressive as that answer. But I'm going to go with the original animated Avatar: The Last Airbender series. And I'm going to go with it, not because I watched it as a kid, and it's nostalgic, because I just watched it again for the 10th time two weeks ago. And I'm going to go with it. It's a story. It's a story that I think a lot of people can relate to, and I think it's timeless.
Well, the other thing about Twin Peaks that people forget is, that when it came out in the '90s, it was like a revolution on television. No one had done anything like that, Twin Peaks is in the DNA of everything after. So for the younger folks at the table, if you research when it was on and what TV was like back then, you know, it was crazy.
We would have dinner, and we had wooden plates, and he would take the knife, and he'd go and stab it into the plate, and it would stick there and go, are we not mad? And I was okay, and we would do that. I said, let's do that. Let's do what dad did, and so we put that in, and, and that kind of had this family bond which then, interestingly enough, spoke volumes about where the movie is going.
NICOLAS CAGE: You could make a movie about a stuntman. You could remake the old Burt Reynolds movie, Hooper.SADIE SOVERALL: There wasn't really anything, I think, as both Nic and Max said, it was all a bit of a blur because we had so little time to do this, but I'd say for me, a lot of the fun stuff was just a lot of the physical stunts, we're incorporating all these different things because you just, you don't really get to do that every day or in every film.
MAXWELL JENKINS: So yeah, it was when it was raining out there. It was like it was more like can can we prove it to ourselves that we can do this? Nothing's what, nothing's harder than the circus any time. It's like a rough dance set or at school or whatever. That's like my go-to last thing.
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