Don’t expect Nicolas Cage to pick up a lightsaber anytime soon – he’s more of a Trekkie. During an interview with Yahoo! Entertainment, the star of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent revealed that he isn’t fussed about heading to the galaxy far, far away.
“I’m not really down,” he said. “I'm a Trekkie, man. I'm on the Star Trek Enterprise. That's where I roll.”
Cage recently starred in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent alongside a bona fide Star Wars legend – Pedro Pascal.
Pascal famously plays Din Djarin in the Star Wars universe, aka The Mandalorian. But it looks as though Cage won’t be joining his co-star due to his love of Star Trek.
“I grew up watching [William] Shatner,” he explained. “I thought Pine was terrific in the movies. I think the movies are outstanding. I like the political and the sociological [messages]. To me what science fiction is really all about and why it's such an important genre is that really you can say whatever you want, however you feel. You put it on a different planet, you put it in a different time or in the future, and without people just jumping on you, you can really express your thoughts like Orwell or whomever in the science fiction format. And Star Trek really embraced that.”
Whether or not there’s a place for him on the bridge of the starship Enterprise remains to be seen. But one thing’s for certain – he has no interest in switching allegiance to Star Wars.
“It's a fact,” he added. “I'm not in the Star Wars family. I'm in the Star Trek family.”
IGN’s review of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent gave it 8/10 and said: “It probably goes without saying that Nicolas Cage obsessives will get precisely what they’re looking for out of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’s meta-exploration of the actor’s persona, but the real heart and soul of the picture is Cage’s on-screen bromance with Pedro Pascal’s Javi. Their chemistry carries the movie into far more memorable territory, and more than makes up for a few of the film’s less-interesting elements.”
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Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.
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