"Nicolas Cage He's a fucking legend." Sorry for the language. But that's how it is and that's one of the first sentences you hear in The unbearable weight of a huge talent (Theatrical release June 17) while two fans watch one of his cult movies, With Air.
Tom Gornican he wrote this film as a fun tribute to the actor. In the film, Cage plays himself, or one version of himself (or rather, two). Perhaps the version we all think we see, that image we have of him, as a superstar, workaholics and what is it going through a bump in his career because they want to be taken more seriously at this point.
Nick and Pedro resting in Croatia.
At first, the actor was not amused by the script, but Gornican insisted, sending him a letter in which he presented himself as an absolute admirer, a great connoisseur of his entire filmography, and Cage began to see him with different eyes. It was a way of laughing a little at himself and at the star System, something that he, being part of the system since he was born (as the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola), has always known how to do well. Especially in recent years, defying everything Hollywood expected of the actor.
The unbearable weight of a huge talent presents a Nicolas Cage in low hours. He is about to retire because it seems that nobody wants him in Hollywood anymore (something that has happened to him in recent years, although he has managed to continue working piecemeal on international and independent productions). So desperate is he he has to accept the offer to come as a guest (well) paid to the birthday of a millionaire fan (Pedro Pascal). The appointment is in the villa of this rich man: in Mallorca.
Paco Leon and Alessandra Mastronardi.
Majorca? That's what they say in the movie and that's what they want us to believe. Although they have found locations with the keys to Majorcan geography, it didn't take us long to realize that those streets are not those of Palma and those white stones and those forests they are not those of the Tramuntana mountains.
In reality, Cage and the entire cast (including Paco Leon in a funny character) shot in Croatia they had to pass the Mediterranean coasts of the country and some of its streets through Mallorca. The reason? Always economical and logistical. And maybe he had to see the covid, because They shot in October 2020.
LOOKS LIKE MALLORCA, BUT…
The film starts in Los Angeles, where Nicolas Cage lives (although he actually lives on a ranch closer to Las Vegas, full of the eccentricities that he was able to stay after the problem with the estate). And from there he jumps to Mallorca. They never say where he goes specifically, but he goes to various places. All Croatia.
The Sheherazade Villa.
Javi's house (Pascal) is actually Sheherazade Villa, a luxury house that could be rented before the pandemic and that overlooks Dubrovnik.
Some of the population scenes were shot in Konavle, a small town full of charm and history in the south of the country. They also filmed in Cavtat, 20Km from Dubrovnik and in Trsteno, famous for its arboretum, They set the garden scenes. And the place where you enter one of the funniest locations in the film, one that was recreated on set: a sanctuary that Javi has dedicated to Nicolas Cage, with all kinds of real memorabilia and merchandising, from the actor's films and from souvenirs they found in stores and on the internet. Like that endearing and colorful sequin cushion.
In the southern coastal area of the country, almost right next to Montenegro they found the landscapes of trees and coast that almost, almost sneak us through Mallorca. Nice try, Nick.
Nicolas Cage and Pedro Pascal touring Majorca?