Prior to this, Cage’s “playing himself” comedy “The Unbearable Weight of Genius” was a huge success, with a 100% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Cage plays an actor named Nicolas Cage, who is madly eager for a role in a Quentin Tarantino movie. From time to time, he talks to a fantasy self in the 1990s, who is arrogant and self-willed, who complains that he has made too many bad movies now, and he is out of breath and is no longer a big star.
