Nicolas Cage Was Apparently Never Paid For One Of His Most Significant Roles

Nicolas Cage in April. Rodin Eckenroth via Getty Images Nicolas Cage could’ve used that money for another shrunken head. Writer-director Mike Figgis told The Hollywood Reporter’s “It Happened in Hollywood” podcast during its most recent episode that he and Cage didn’t get any money for their work on 1995’s “Leaving Las Vegas.“ “Nicolas and I never got paid,” Figgis said, while discussing the film that won Cage an Academy Award for Best Actor, his only Oscar to date. (Listen to Figgis’ remarks below, starting at about 31:57.) Advertisement “They said the film never went into profit,” Figgis said of Lumiere… Read Full Article