Nicolas Cage Can't Seem To Say 'No' To Films.

ok, so it seems to me that nicolas cage is popping up in a new film every five minutes or so. not that i'm complaining mind you, 'cos he chooses some interesting stuff, and he's obviously a great actor — he describes his acting style as 'Nouveau Shamanic' — but does he realise he can say 'no' to being in a film? i remember reading that he had some tax issues for a while there, which i assumed was the main reason he was doing so many, but i thought that was all sorted out now, and he still seems to be in heaps. anyway, i took a look, and according to wikipedia he's been in --- films over -- years which is around --- per year, or almost 1 every 4 months, which although i have nothing to compare it to, seems like a lot (and it's more than 1 every 3 months if you just look at the last decade, which is not bad given he's now over 60). the chart below shows the months when a film he was in was released* (indicated by , or if two films were released that month, a ) from his first in august 1982 through til the end of 2026 (just 1 film in 2026, but he's the main character in the TV series Spider Noir, which is about to be be released, and he plays another Ben...).

over this period (along with a few unnamed characters) he's been an 'Al', an 'Amos'', an 'Antonio', an 'Araña', a 'Balthazar', a 'Behmen', a 'Ben' (twice), a 'Benjamin' (twice), a 'Bill' (twice), a 'Brent', a 'Brian', a 'Cameron', a 'Castor', a 'Charles', a 'Charlie' (3 times), a 'Colin', a 'Colton', a 'Cris', a 'Dale', a 'Damon', a 'David', a 'Donald', a 'Doug', an 'Eddie (twice)', an 'Edwar', an 'Enrico', an 'Evan', a 'Frank' (3 times), a 'Gallain', a 'Gary', a 'Grug' (twice), a 'Hank', a 'Jack' (3 times), a 'Jacob', a 'Jake', a 'Joe' (4 times), a 'Joh', a 'John' (3 times), a 'Johnny' (3 times), a 'Kyle', a 'Matt', a 'Memphis', a 'Michael', a 'Mike' (twice), a 'Miller', a 'Milton', a 'Nathan', a 'Ned', a 'Nick', a 'Nicky', a 'Noah', a 'Paul (3 times)', a 'Peter' (twice), a 'Randy', a 'Ray', a 'Rayford', a 'Red', a 'Rick', a 'Rob', a 'Ronny', a 'Roy', a 'Seth', a 'Stanley', a 'Stone', a 'Terence', a 'Tom', a 'Troy', a 'Vincent', a 'Walter', a 'Wil' (twice), and a 'Wylie' .