Nicolas Cage is one of the most popular actors of this or any generation, but he also holds a number of surprising records.
There was a time when Cage was one of the most prominent actors in the world, starring in award-winning films and even winning an Oscar. Today, he’s more of a meme for many fans.
WebsiteStat Significantlooked at Cage’s lengthy career and found some interesting stats about the actor, now seemingly in a career resurgence after roles inPig,Longlegs, and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.
For starters, it was found that Cage had an incredible number of roles to his name. Among actors with over $1 billion in lifetime box office gross who starred in leading roles, Cage is by far the most prolific, with just shy of 90 roles.
He blows past the next actor on the list, Jackie Chan, who sits at around 70 roles. Stat Significant attributes this to Cage’s many appearances in low-budget and direct-to-video films, allegedly taken on because of massive debts accrued in the early 2000s.
Stat Significant also discovered Cage hada wildly popular AMA, which was held to promote The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, in which Cage played a fictionalized version of himself. Reddit says the AMA had 240,000 upvotes.
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It’s a remarkable amount of data that supports just how prolific of an actor Cage is, even after years in less-than-stellar films. With his fortunes beginning to turn after the success of movies like Longlegs, it all seems to point to Cage entering into a renaissance.
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Christopher Baggett was a TV & Movies Writer on Dexerto’s US team and a comics expert, across DC Comics and Marvel. He also has bylines at ComicsBeat, Comic Book Resources, and The HomeWorld.
