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I love talking about Nicolas Cage, 48, because he’s such a whack job. The details that came out during his financial crisis of his over the top, cinematic lifestyle were fascinating and I love to revisit them whenever we cover him. (Which is rarely so indulge me.) He owned a fleet of luxury cars, several yachts, a zoo worth of exotic animals and property around the world including two castles, 15 homes, and an island. Of course all of that excess led him deep into debt, so he’s paying it off by selling stuff and starring in movies that somehow get worse every year. Hence his latest movie with Vanessa Hudgens, 23, whom he seems to have developed an inappropriate and unreciprocated crush on. Vanessa and Nic are co-starring in a thriller based on true events in the Robert Hansen serial killer case called The Frozen Ground. (Which I was ready to dismiss as a POS, but it’s got John Cusack and Dean Norris from Breaking Bad in it, so it might be decent.) According to Star Magazine, Nic was hanging around watching Vanessa during filming and being so creepy that she asked producers to keep him off set unless he had scenes to do.
High School Musical actress Vanessa Hudgens had heard about Nicolas Cage’s reputation for freaking out younger costars. But she had no idea just how much he would make her squirm until the 23 year-old bombshell played a stripper opposite Nic, 48, in the new thriller The Frozen Ground, set for a Nov. 30 release. Nicolas unnerved the starlet so much that she begged directors to banish him from the set. “He constantly watched her and even showed up on days when he wasn’t filming to see her,” a friend tells Star. “Vanessa finally asked the directors to intervene and keep him away because she couldn’t concentrate on her performance.”
[From Star Magazine, print edition, September 17, 2012]
That was the entire story in Star. If this story was about any other well known married male celebrity being inappropriate on set, like Ben Affleck or even Antonio Banderas (to use another guy that isn’t A-list) it would get much more play. But this is Nicolas Cage, and we know he’s a weirdo, so it gets a blurb on a page with another story about how Leonardo DiCaprio’s sex drive has gone down.
Who leaked this news, or did Star make it up? It’s about Nicolas Cage, which makes me think it has a grain of truth in it. Plus they call Vanessa Hudgens a “bombshell” and the source says she needs to concentrate on her performance. You draw your own conclusions. As if the subject matter weren’t creepy enough.
I really thought John Cusack was hot in this still from the film until I realized he’s playing the serial killer.
Written by Celebitchy
Posted in Creepy, John Cusack, Nicolas Cage, Vanessa Hudgens
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Cusack is still hot, serial killer or not.
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LOL I thought the same thing! I totally still would.
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Agreed! And if you have any doubts about his hotness, just put in Serendipity…gets me every time.
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+10000000 gets me every time!!
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Agree. He may even be hot enough to endure Vanessa Hudgens’ “performance.” Or maybe I will just rent it and only turn the sound up when Cusack is onscreen.
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Agree! What kind of trainwreck is this flick going to be??
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Love JC, but NC..restraining order.
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“I really thought John Cusack was hot in this still from the film until I realized he’s playing the serial killer.”
I thought Christian Bale was hot even during the axe murder scene in American Psycho. Does that make me a bad person?
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Yes, but it makes you a bad person in good company.
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I keep company with a large group of women that find that scene with Christian Bale incredibly hot. Sure, he’s chasing a woman with a chainsaw. But all he is wearing is sneakers and the guy was in the best shaper of his life. We can’t help ourselves.
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Yes, still hot!!! The violence and acting in that movie was SO campy, it was possible (for me at least) to detach from it. I think the author of the book it was inspired by must be truly insane though. Ellis… right?
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Yes, but that’s okay; we’re all such be-aches!
Love John Cusack; always have…Nic Cage; I wouldn’t really mind having him over for coffee.
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OMG, me too. It puts me a little bit at ease knowing that I´m not the only one.
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It’s my impression that all the violence in that film is not really supposed to be happening, it’s just in Bateman’s mind… he’s hallucinating. Anyway it *is* only a movie, but I still feel reassured somewhat after reading these comments
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John Cusack – never did it for me.
Christian Bale with a chainsaw somehow works for me.
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There was a blind item about this situation on CDN.
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i remember it too
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Ditto ! Glad my memory isn’t completely shot, lol.
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I have such an odd fascination with Nic Cage. He’s so bizarre that I can’t help but read everything about him. That being said this story is totally believable. What a strange guy.
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Believable, except for her being a “bombshell” and concentrating on her work. Either way, if he’s doing that, it’s creepy.
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“He owned a fleet of luxury cars, several yachts, a zoo worth of exotic animals and property around the world including two castles, 15 homes, and an island.”
I know you said he’s in debt, but…SMDH…How did Nic’s career ever lend him near the amount of money for all that stuff to begin with? National Treasure movies surely didnt pay that much!
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She IS his type-
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Why is no one hiring her to play a Trampire? I think that’s what fascinates him the most about her. He’s waiting for her fangs to bust out
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Thanks for the laugh for the day Kaiser. And I too love John Kusack, I have been into him ever since I saw him in “The Journey of Natty Gann” as a little girl. I loved that movie and I loved him. And I also like Christian Bale when he cleans up, I know he is a jerk, but I can’t help it he is smoking hot.
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I can totally see this. Dude’s a wackjob. A talented one, but a wackjob nonetheless.
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“From a distance I desired her… secretly admired her”
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I think she’s really cute.
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“bombshell concentrating on her work” aka: down on her luck stripper trying to earn a buck
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Ick…no, Nicholas Cage I hear is strange, very strange. You would want him to stay away from you, too.
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there was also a blind-that many people guessed to be about him wanting to make a real snuff movie. seriously though as much as i dislike hudgens no one deserves to be stalked and this is not light gossip this is serious!
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“Vanessa finally asked the directors to intervene and keep him away because she couldn’t concentrate on her performance.”
–Note to the Trampire: this is how you handle a situation like this.
When it’s a director and you are the A-List star you go to the producers or even the suits.
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Well I loved John Cusack as a killer-for-hire in Grosse Pointe Blank so I’m sure I can get past him in this one too
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I wouldn’t want Nic Cage with his “crazy eyes” watching me either.
Cusack as a serial killer…no!
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