The Russian male audience, they loved 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door,' and they like my comedies, but the Russian male audience is action, action, action.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.
So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage.
I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
Musical chairs or Russian roulette? Sometimes there's as much tense drama in the casting of a Hollywood movie as there is in the finished product.
It's funny because I'm so used to acting in English that any time I have these moments where I have to speak Russian, it definitely takes a different part of my brain to pull it off, but it's always nice and fun.
I like comedies in general.
I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.
American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.
I love the comradery of doing theatre that you don't get in film.
'Russian Ark,' I adore - I almost cried at the end of that film, it's so beautiful.