Nicholas Cage was back to work on his latest project on Friday.
The actor, 61, who is starring in the live-action version of Spider-Man: Noir, was costumed in a dreary looking brown suit and overcoat for the night’s filming in San Pedro, California.
The area has been experiencing the high winds which fueled the wildfires that ravaged Pacific Palisades and Altadena, resulting in production being shut down briefly.
The set was some 40 miles away from the nearest blaze, but air quality in the region has been affected by toxic particles from the flames.
In the new series for MGM+/Amazon Prime Video, Cage will give shape to the character he began voicing in the Oscar-winning animated film Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.
In the eight-episode series, Cage will star as an aging, down-on-his-luck private investigator in 1930s New York who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero.
This role will mark the Academy Award winner’s first regular television role.
Nicolas Cage, 61, returned to the set of Spider-Man: Noir Friday in San Pedro, California, following a brief shutdown due to unhealthy weather conditions caused by high winds and poor air quality due to the Los Angeles fires
In an interview with The New Yorker, Cage spoke about being inspired a popular, Emmy-winning series for his decision to give TV a try.
‘I saw Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad stare at a suitcase for half the episode,’ the actor told the publication.
‘Just him on the floor looking at a suitcase thinking, “What’s in it? Do I do this? Don’t I do it?” I thought, “We don’t have time to do that in movies.” So that to me seemed like an opportunity to open it up a little.
‘I don’t know if the project that I’m exploring has room for that,’ he admitted.
‘I think this is a much more sort of popcorn-entertainment episodic.’
Explaining why he gave his OK to the latest Marvel episodic adventure, the versatile actor explained, ‘I don’t like violence. I don’t want to play people who are hurting people.’
‘One of the things that I like about this potential show is that it’s fantasy. It’s not really people beating people up. Monsters are involved.’
He also expressed his concern that body scans he had to do prior to working on this project.
The is Cage’s first role as a TV regular. In the eight episode series, Cage will star as an aging, down-on-his-luck private investigator in 1930s New York who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero
Cage, who learned about the death of his Wild At Heart director David Lynch at 78 earlier in the day, told Deadline, ‘I never had more fun on a film set than working with David Lynch. He will always be solid gold’ (Pictured with Laura Dern)
‘They’re just going to steal my body and do whatever they want with it via digital A.I.,’ the actor worried.
‘God, I hope not A.I. I’m terrified of that. I’ve been very vocal about it,’ he said.
Cage, who worked with the late David Lynch on the 1990 film Wild At Heart, had high praise for the eclectic writer and director while speaking to Deadline after learning of his death at 78.
‘I never had more fun on a film set than working with David Lynch,’ he told the publication. ‘He will always be solid gold.’
Cage costarred in the Wizard Of Oz–inspired crime film with Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe and Lynch’s then-partner Isabella Rossellini.
