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Cage also portrays Nicky Cage (credited by Cage's birth name Nicolas Kim Coppola), a figment of Cage's imagination, seen as a younger version of himself.Nicolas Cage as a fictionalized version of himself.Nicolas Cage (left) stars as a fictionalized version of himself who attends the birthday party of a rich superfan played by Pedro Pascal (right). Cage is applauded for his new film and congratulates Javi before going home with his family to watch Paddington 2, now with a better relationship.

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Upon arrival, Lucas holds Cage at gunpoint, but Addy tosses him a knife which Cage uses to kill him-transitioning into the movie that Cage and Javi completed, presumably based on their adventure.

However, Cage, Addy, Maria and Olivia escape while Javi and Gabriela stay behind to distract Lucas.Ĭage, Addy, Olivia and Maria race to the American embassy with Lucas still in pursuit. They manage to locate Addy and Maria but are found out. With Javi's help, Cage and Olivia pose as a reclusive criminal couple to get close to Lucas. Cage takes Javi, Olivia and Javi's assistant Gabriela to the CIA safe house, only for the house to have been compromised Martin has been killed, while Vivian sacrifices herself to kill Lucas's men before they can ambush the group. Lucas sends his men after both of them, and they race back to the house to discover that Addy has been kidnapped. Cage begins to rethink his friendship.Ĭage and Javi have a stand-off with each other, but neither can bring themselves to kill the other. Lucas warns him that Cage is working with the CIA and pressures him to kill Cage, or else Lucas will kill Javi. Javi privately goes to meet with his cousin Lucas, who is revealed to be the true arms dealer and the one who kidnapped Maria. Cage tries to make amends with them, but they reject his appeal and accuse him of prioritizing his film career over his family. Javi brings Olivia and Addy to his villa from Los Angeles they are frightened and angered over what is happening. Cage finds it difficult to betray Javi, but Vivian convinces him to work the kidnapping into their script so that he could potentially reveal where Maria is.Ĭage explains his new idea to Javi, who believes that Cage is creatively bankrupt, and possibly has issues he needs to work out. After a misadventure involving LSD, Cage discovers that Javi keeps a shrine room dedicated to all of his movies, including a wax figure of his character Castor Troy from the film Face/Off, complete with identical golden guns. Despite his insistence otherwise, Cage decides to help the CIA with the mission.Īfter successfully rigging the cameras in Javi's compound, Cage attends a party where he announces his collaboration with Javi on a new movie, as an excuse to stay on the compound long enough to find Maria. They suspect that Javi, who they claim made his fortune through arms dealing, is behind the kidnapping of Maria, the daughter of an anti-crime politician, with the hope that he will drop out of an upcoming election. Soon after, Cage is confronted by CIA agents Vivian and Martin. Caligari and Paddington 2 (the latter of which Cage watches for the first time with Javi). Upon meeting Javi, Cage is initially annoyed by his neediness and insistence that they create an improvisational movie based on a script he wrote, but is soon inspired by Javi's determination, and the two of them quickly bond over their surprisingly shared love of films such as The Cabinet of Dr. He decides to accept a vague offer of $1 million from his agent Richard Fink that involves going to Majorca to meet billionaire playboy Javi Gutierrez and to be the guest of honor at his birthday. Following an embarrassing and humiliating event at Addy's birthday party and losing a key film role, Cage plans to retire from acting. His relationship with his ex-wife Olivia and daughter Addy is also marred by years of emotional neglect.

Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage is struggling with his career after being passed over for several major film roles and is constantly pestered and tormented by 'Nicky', who appears to him as his younger (and more successful) self.

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