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Nicolas Cage talks about being open about getting out of debt and what he had to do to pay back the $6 million he owed.
“I overinvested in real estate. The real estate market crashed, and I couldn’t get out in time,” Cage said. 60 minutes. I paid all of them, but it was about $6 million. I never filed for bankruptcy.”
It was a “dark” period in his life, Cage said, but booking roles kept him afloat to help him pay his debts despite the direct films he eventually did.
“Work has always been my guardian angel. It may not have worked, but it still worked.” “Even if the movie ends up being bad, they know I don’t phone him, and I care about him every time.”
This isn’t the first time Cage has spoken out about his financial struggles and how determined he is not to file for bankruptcy by giving it his all in the projects he’s been awarded.
“When I was shooting four films a year, noon in a row, I still had to find something in them to give my all,” he said. GQ in 2022. “They didn’t all work. Some of them were great, like MandyBut some of them didn’t work. But I never contacted him. So if there is a misconception, it is. I was just doing it and I didn’t care. I cared.”
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