James Dean inspired Cage

Actor Nicolas Cage admits that he was fascinated by movies and TV from a very young age and spent a lot of time trying to work out how to get on TV, but didn’t find a focus for his ambition until he saw actor James Dean on the big screen.

Actor Nicolas Cage admits that he was fascinated by movies and TV from a very young age and spent a lot of time trying to work out how to get on television, but didn’t find a focus for his ambition until he was a teenager and saw actor James Dean on the big screen.

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“I’d watch the TV intently and try to figure out how to get inside it from the living room carpet,”

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quoted him as saying. “But it wasn’t until I was 15 that I went to the New Beverly Cinema, a little arthouse cinema in Los Angeles, and I discovered James Dean in

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(1955). The scene where he’s trying to give Raymond Massey the money from the beans he sold on his father’s birthday blew my mind,” he said.