Just like the other certainties in life — death and taxes — Nicolas Cage has himself a new haircut.
A quirky new photo of Cage, who is promoting a new film called “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” shows him sporting a shock of dyed blond hair. The pic was snapped on Saturday as he made an appearance at the movie-meets-comic-book-meets-sci-fi event, WonderCon.
Many of Cage’s most interesting style choices have been just that — choices. But the actor took on this transformation for a new movie he’s filming. This look, according to Cage, is part of a venture into method-acting.
“I’m trying to tap into my Celtic roots,” he said, “so I dyed it blond.”
Cage, who was born Nicolas Coppola, might have to dig pretty deep to find those roots. His father, August Coppola, is of Italian descent and his mother, Joy Vogelsang, is of German heritage.
This is far from the first time that Nicolas Cage has had an eye-catching head of hair, and he’s never been one to shy away from being labeled “eccentric.” Remember, this is a man who was so enamored with Elvis Presley that he, albeit briefly, married The King’s daughter. This is also a man so enamored with Superman that he named his son Kal-El — Superman’s Kryptonian birth name.
Whether it be the mullet he sported as a wronged prisoner for “Con Air,” the bleached pompadour he wore in an attempt to win the heart of Kathleen Turner in “Peggy Sue Got Married,” or the disheveled anti-hairdo his sloppy-crook character wore in “Raising Arizona,” Cage’s coif never stays the same for long.
Cage’s tendency to take chances with his appearance has garnered attention — and not always the flattering kind — over the years. But the way people perceive him is not something the best actor Oscar winner is too concerned about.
In a new interview with Cinematical about the Blu-ray release of “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,” Cage discussed his adventurousness in acting and the physical manifestations it takes.
“I guess I’m just trying to open things up, find new sounds and look for new gesture and form in film acting, and that’s going to inevitably be met with confusion or assumptions, or enjoyment.” Cage said. “It depends on however people choose to receive it, or if it’s to their tastes, or not, but I know that it is something that I respond to and it’s organic to me so that’s what I have to do.”
Cage will appear this month is the super-hero comedy “Kick-Ass,” and later this summer in the aforementioned “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” on July 16. “Drive Angry,” the film that’s garnering the most buzz (at least as far as Cage’s locks are concerned), will speed into theaters in 2011.
