Nicolas Cage Explains Hair, Plays Out Childhood Fantasy (ORIGINAL VIDEO)

Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage talked candidly about his latest film "Season of the Witch," in which he plays a role he's fantasized about since he was a child. Cage was also candid about his changing hair styles, which have garnered some media attention recently. The Huffington Post's Samira Nanda was in New York and on the red carpet, chatting with Cage.

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[BlueMrsKitty]

07:26 PM on 01/06/2011

OK--that was rude, but I gotta say I totally agree about his crazy hair. I can't look at him in some movies because his hair looks so bizarre. He used to be really handsome.

[Brian Rowe]

07:17 PM on 01/06/2011

do u read us....I must admit I have, yes.

[marred]

05:25 PM on 01/06/2011

After John Travolta Cage has to be the next most boring interviewee.

[Lindstr7]

05:22 PM on 01/06/2011

Geeze, is this the kind of thing HuffPost is moving towards...... Save the gossipy hair questions for TMZ...not interested.

[CelebObsessed]

04:17 PM on 01/06/2011

He's a great actor, but for some reason he has always creeped me out a little. I finally figured out why after I saw this craziness....he's such a "hidden" psychopath http://bit.ly/hbkheo

[SCboy]

02:50 PM on 01/06/2011

I only read the headline and am saying, thanks, I'm good, no explanation needed.

[Tulka2]

02:18 PM on 01/06/2011

It was a Polish prince who delivered Europe from the Turks and lifted the siege at Venice.  

The Inquisition was so creepy. It was an excuse to murder powerful women and the cultures that supported them.  I have not seen this movie yet, but am sort of appalled by the trailers.  Is it a conceit of the movie that this woman was really possessed by spirits?!  That meme makes me nervous as we seem to be moving into another dark time where i have no doubt certain men are only too happy to see women as conduits for personified evil.

[Tulka2]

02:27 PM on 01/06/2011

Whooops.  Brain freeze alert.  It was Vienna were the Turks of the Ottoman Empire were famously thwarted by the Polish prince.

[Max Shaw]

01:41 PM on 01/06/2011

It seems as though he never really got past that aging Sorercer look.. Don't think its working for him.

[WaitForIt]

01:39 PM on 01/06/2011

His hair is a bird.

Your argument is invalid.

[sensimilla]

01:37 PM on 01/06/2011

Nick, just give it up. Bald is the new SEXY!

[Beaucheron]

07:32 PM on 01/09/2011

F&F - Bald really is the new SEXY! And for your name...

[Witkacy]

01:27 PM on 01/06/2011

Don't be deterred by The Crazy - Cage is still the man: see Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, where Cage as the gleefully hallucinating titular character says "Shoot him again - his soul is still dancing!"

[Jerome Morrow]

01:21 PM on 01/06/2011

He should just shave his head and be done with it all. But I felt sorta sorry for him because she just asked it out of the blue and he looked embarrassed...

[jusathot]

01:52 PM on 01/06/2011

I know--that was very rude of her. If a man asked something personal like that, he would be called rude. Besides, Nicolas Cage is my numero uno white guy crush.

[Please-Play-Fair]

03:48 PM on 01/06/2011

yes ... it would be like asking a woman about lipo or a boob job.  Inappropriate question at best.

[americancolonyinhell]

12:51 PM on 01/06/2011

He was polite, not candid, about a question that frankly made him nervous; notice that began to drift away from her the minute she asked him about his toupee...er...hair.

[brothers3]

01:03 PM on 01/06/2011

My thoughts exactly. Although I was somewhat taken back by his affected speech pattern.

[americancolonyinhell]

01:24 PM on 01/06/2011

Yeah, I actually found myself mimicking him.

[JScott]

12:45 PM on 01/06/2011

Didn't really say much.

But get real hairpiece and then transplant (not the best tho), for what he could pay for he coulda got a better transplant.

[jusathot]

01:55 PM on 01/06/2011

This is the one item where men get taken advantage of. Usually items made for men are of better quality. I think it is because there is a shame factor about losing their hair. I think bald is beautiful, and would work for my white baby-daddy Nick.

[The One True Dave]

12:42 PM on 01/06/2011

I've enjoyed many of his films and I've enjoyed many of his characters. I've just never thought much of his acting. With the exception of Raising Arizona I've always kind of suspected that there was another actor who would've been better in each particular role. Given our shared interests in some areas I'm sure I'd absolutely love hanging out with the guy, but I don't think of his acting abilities as much more than simply "adequate."