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Coming from the guy who ate a cockroach in "Vampire's Kiss" and played twin versions of himself in the comedy "Adaptation," that's saying something.
Cage laughs and says: "I realize that's not a small statement given what I've done in the past." The movie is a remake of a 1999 film about a hit man wrestling with the immorality and darkness he has invited into his life, directed by the original's filmmakers, Oxide Pang Chun and Danny Pang.
"My directors were twin Chinese brothers, if you can imagine that," Cage says. "I thought perhaps they could see something new in me. It was down and dirty in the sense that not a ton of money was thrown at it. We just get into the streets of Bangkok and make a movie."
Cage says shooting on location was his main reason for doing the movie, and the mystery of Thailand motivates his character.
"I play a hit man on his last three hits in Bangkok and then he's going to retire," he says. "The city presents a new experience that opens his mind to the possibility of romance and maybe quitting that line of work."
Lazarus as musical influence
Aussie rocker Nick Cave turned to a biblical character for inspiration on his latest album, "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!" Due April 8 in the United States on Anti- Records, the album is his 14th with longtime band the Bad Seeds. Cave describes it in a statement as "an elegy to the New York City of the '70s."
The singer/songwriter, who remembers being "traumatized" by the story of Lazarus when he first heard it as a child, decided to relocate the risen dead man to the Big Apple to give the music "a hip, contemporary feel. I also was thinking about Harry Houdini, who spent a lot of his life trying to debunk the spiritualists cashing in on the bereaved. (Houdini) believed there was nothing going on beyond the grave. He was the second-greatest escapologist."
The results will satisfy Cave's old fans, says Anti- product manager Jeff Abarta. "Nick really bares his feral teeth on 'Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!,' more than he has on a Bad Seeds record in a long time."
Berkley steps up to 'Dance'
Elizabeth Berkley is on the dance floor again as host of Bravo's new reality series, "Step It Up and Dance." As a teen, Berkley starred on "Saved by the Bell," but she's perhaps best known as wild-child performer Nomi from "Showgirls," a 1995 box office bomb that nearly derailed her career.
Still, hosting "Step" was a "no-brainer," says Berkley, who has worked with most of "Step's" choreographers and judges in film and stage roles. "Dancing's been a huge part of my life. I started when I was 4."
source: http://www.stargazettenews.com
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