Nicolas Cage tapped into his cowboy roots to play gunslinger Colton Briggs in 'The Old Way' and detailed his favorite roles in classic Hollywood films
Nicolas Cage told Fox News Digital he always loved the genre growing up, noting Charles Bronson in "Once Upon a Time in the West" is his favorite performance in a western.
Nicolas Cage is known for a host of iconic roles on the silver screen, but there's one direction he's yet to face after decades in the industry: heading out into theIn his latest flick, Cage admitted he had no trouble tapping into his Western roots to play the"cold-blooded gunslinger turned respectable family man" Colton Briggs in"The Old Way."
"The Western genre is something I've always admired," Cage exclusively told Fox News Digital."I grew up watching my favorite Western performance, Charles Bronson as Harmonica in""I grew up in California, used to watch these movies on my little TV, and I live in Nevada. I always felt like I would be a good match for a Western. They wouldn't be that much acting for me. I felt like I could fill those boots and wear that hat.
"When the script came to me for the first time, a traditional Western script, I thought, 'Well, yeah, I'm going to do that,'" he said."'You're going to pay me to put on ... and dress the way I like to dress, and wear the cowboy hat and homage some of my favorite movie stars of all time and yell? I'm there."
He added,"My stomach rumbles like anybody else's. So it was absolutely I was in 'cause I'm not getting any younger, and I didn't know if I'd be invited again, so I had to do it."
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