ACTOR Nicolas Cage spoke about his love for Somerset in an interview with Absolute Radio, due to air tomorrow (Saturday, April 16).
Cage, 58, made the comments while discussing his new film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent with presenter Matt Forde.
The actor has owned a cottage in the village of Baltonsborough, near Glastonbury, since 2006 - but he revealed he has found it difficult to spend time there since the pandemic began.
“I have a modest little cottage in Somerset I have been dreaming to get back to but, with everything we have been contending with, it has been so difficult,” said Cage.
“I am looking forward to getting back to your side of the world - such nice people in Somerset.”
Cage has been seen out and about in the county by film fans several times since he bought his cottage.
In 2009, the actor switched on Bath's Christmas lights and, in 2017, he posed for a picture with the owners of Not Just Pets in Frome.
On New Year's Day in 2020, Cage was spotted at the Tramways Social Club in Wells, where he is said to have bought everyone a drink.
His ties to the south west do not end with his cottage near Glastonbury, as he also shared his love of Cornish pasties.
Cage said: “I used to have Cornish Pasties, believe it or not, in Santa Monica, California.
“There was a place called the Ye Olde King’s Head pub, I used to go there as a child and have them.
“They are so delicious and they were the perfect thing to put in your lunch pail to go to school with.”
He was on Absolute Radio to discuss his latest film, in which Cage plays a fictionalised version of himself.
His character, actor Nick Cage, accepts a $1 million offer to attend a rich fan's birthday party - but things take a turn when a CIA agent recruits him for a mission.
Discussing his role, Cage told Forde: “I am playing a character that is more obsessed with his so-called career than he is with his family.
“Well, I can tell you right now there is no version of Nick Cage that doesn’t want to spend time with his family or his children and I never really looked at it as a career, I always looked as it as work.
“You know this is work.
“I always said I never had a career, I only had work, and I like it that way.”
Matt Forde and Matt Dyson's Absolute Radio show will begin tomorrow at 2pm.
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