Ok, here you go.... I happen to have some free time in my hands just now. Just for you, dear Lula:

We never hear the questions, only Nic´s answers. He´s seated in a warehouse set, in full make-up (pretty sloppy appearance, he´s obviously just shot a scene in which his character was fighting and took the worst part):

I, being from the US, being white, would be in Asia working primarily with Asian actors, and the relationship between my character Joe Enders (sic) (Fade-out)  and Shakrit´s character Kong, being a teacher/student relationship, and ultimately a friendship, I think it´s a good message to send out there in the world we´re living in right now.

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I wanna have a whole new way of presenting myself as Nicolas Cage in filmmaking. And that means going to Bangkok, having a Thai crew, Chinese filmmakers and letting them do to me what they think will fit within their vision, their world. That´s brand new. I´m just giving myself over to their vision. And hopefully they´ll reinvent me. So that´s what I find really stimulating about this.

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I think this potentially will go further than the original because of the cross cultural aspects of the characters, getting to know one another. I think that will have more meaning ultimately in the long run. And I think that Dannt and Oxide wanted to have another opportunity to recreate the film because they had ideas to even strengthen the film from the original.

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I was aware of the way they create from graphic novels, almost it´s like they draw the movie. This movie is already made in their mind. And now is a process of just, you know, bring it to life on film, but they already see it in their head and it´s like a photoplay, it´s like pictures being put together like a collage. It´s not like anything I´ve done before.

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I would say that he is perhaps more evil if you´d have to label him, so-called evil, er and he´s trying to find a way, as an American mercenary, he´s coming out of his violence, his demons, because of Fon, er my costar, and her sensitivity, her kindness Because of Thailand, because of Bangkok itself, the city is a huge character in the movie. The people in Thailand, the way they bless one another, the way they respect one another, er how they keep their cool, this is all, I think, changing Joe´s way of life, they way he sees things. He´s becoming more interested in peace. And that´s where the character goes into conflict because it´s not his nature. He really can´t be peaceful.

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The thing I like more about Joe is his international presence. I´m trying as an actor, and as a human being, to be more international. I´m trying not to be national. I wanna meet people from all over the world and I wanna receive them well and I wanna learn from  them. And I think that the fact that Joe is here, even though he´s working in this horrible job he´s still interacting with people from other cultures. And that´s what intrigued me-

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I was very touched by that scene because the elephant was a baby elephant and he was very sweet. And he had this thing like he was smiling, he had a smiling face. And I was feeding him and I don´t get to act with elephants so often, so that was a highlight.

Hmm, it´s been kinda cool to take dictation from the horse´s mouth. Much sexier than any of my bosses BTW I wish they pronounced so clearly and spoke so slowly It would make audiotyping much easier, LOL!