I don't know what the motivation was. I was just totally won over by
these animators. They did a presentation in which they animated people
I knew--and me. Then they showed me all these huge, watercolor drawings
of what St. Petersburg palace was going to look like. I was, like,
"Okay, I'll do what you want." I was really caught up with them.
Sounds cute. Still, Rasputin and Bolsheviks and the assassinated Russian
royal family sounds like strange stuff to base a colorful cartoon musical on.
Doesn't it? But it really is about a girl who's looking for her family.
And right now, you're making a movie about an angel who's looking for love.
City of Angels. It's loosely based on the Wim Wenders movie Wings of
Desire--a beautiful story.
Nicolas Cage is the angel, right?
Yeah. Some of the conventions are the same, like the angels can hear
thoughts, but we don't know they're there. It's mainly the last part
of the Wenders film, where he falls in love with the trapeze artist.
But I'm not falling for anything; I'm a heart surgeon.
And it's directed by?
Brad Silberling.
The guy who made Casper?
Yeah, it's the only other thing he's done. But, man, he knows what he's doing.
And with you and Nic, I'd say he's in good hands. Despite all the
girl-next-door labeling, you have a pretty good record of interesting
performances, even in movies that aren't so swift.
Well, y'know, I did a soap opera for a long time. A lot of it was so vapid,
and you had to keep trying to make it about something that, generally,
the words weren't about. It's surprising, because a lot of what an actor
does isn't about what you say, it's how you behave. The challenge is to
fill in all the stuff behind it.
It's easy enough to render a scene, but to make a person say those
words...that's the trick.
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