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Nicolas Cagerecently had an emotional moment with a fan.
In his new movieThe Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, the Oscar winner plays a fictionalized version of himself who agrees to hang out with a wealthy man who claims to be his biggest fan.
Speaking with PEOPLE on April 10 about any memorable interactions he’s had with fans over the years, Cage, 58, shared that he had recently chatted with a woman who related to his 1998 filmCity of Angels, a romance in which he plays an angel oppositeMeg Ryan.
“I had a pretty poignant one last night,” he says. “I was downstairs in the bar and I met a woman who said hello to me. She said that, sadly, her daughter had died in 1997 in a car accident. However, she said, ‘Your movie came out’ — a movie that I don’t hear about very often, but which is a good movie calledCity of Angels— ‘and every time I see the movie I feel like I’m with my daughter again,’ because Meg’s character had a car accident in the movie.”
“She said, ‘When the song comes on, the Alanis Morissettesong, I’m re-bonded with my daughter,’ " adds Cage. “She was genuine, she was sincere, and I thought to myself, ‘Wow, that’s probably one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard.’ "
“It warmed my heart that my little movie could help in some way to that level,” he says.
Nicolas Cage inCity of Angels(1998).Warner Brothers/Everett Collection
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Cage also explains to PEOPLE how the version of himself inMassive Talentdiffers from his real-life self.
“First and foremost … there’s no version of Nick Cage in reality that doesn’t want to spend time with his children,” he says. “There’s no version of Nick Cage thatdidn’t put family first over career. I turned downLord of the Ringsand I turned downMatrixbecause I didn’t want to go to New Zealand for three years or Australia for three years because I needed to be home with my son Weston, that’s a fact.”
“So there is a huge disparity between that Nick Cage inMassive Talentand the Nick Cage sitting in front of you right now,” he adds.
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talentis now in theaters.
source: people.com
