Nicolas Cage won t play Joe Exotic in Tiger King series after Amazon shelves show
Amazon reportedly felt it had taken too long for the show to come together and the story is no longer relevant , actor Nicolas Cage has revealed, after he was given the role to play Joe Exotic in the Tiger King series
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Star Nicolas Cage was set to play the manic Joe Exotic in the Amazon Tiger King series (Image: Getty Images)
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Nicolas Cage won t star as Joe Exotic as Amazon feels series is no longer relevant Mirror 8 hrs ago Jamie Roberts
Nicolas Cage has admitted that he won t be starring as Joe Exotic in an Amazon production of Tiger King as the company has shelved the project. The star revealed that the company believed it has now been too long since the story of Joe Exotic and his influx of tigers broke on Netflix. Nicolas, 57, told Variety that Amazon reportedly felt it was no longer relevant .
He said: We should clear the record. I read two excellent scripts, which I did think were excellent, but I think Amazon ultimately felt that it was material that had become past tense because it took so long for it come together.
NPR‘s
It’s Been A Minute series that aired Monday, the 41-year-old actress and comedian chatted about starring alongside
Nicolas Cage in an upcoming film and shared a racy anecdote about how watching the A-list actor in the 1997 action movie
Face/Off helped her achieve her first orgasm.
After giving a disclaimer that the story “may be inappropriate,” Haddish went on to recall, “I was at the movie theater seeing
Face/Off. I was 17-years-old on a date with this guy and nobody else was in the theater really, it was just us in the back of the theater. And we started making out and it was my first time being fiddled with, I would say it like that.”
Tiffany Haddish Made Shocking Sexual Confession To Nicolas Cage
The actor admits she worried Cage might hit her with a sexual harassment claim.
They say confession is good for the soul, and it seems like it was also crucial to the working relationship between Tiffany Haddish and Nicolas Cage.
The two actors star in “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” an action-comedy set for release next year, but Haddish admitted in a recent episode of “It’s Been A Minute” that she had to come clean with Cage in order to do the best job possible.
The actor told NPR’s Sam Sanders that Cage was unwittingly part of a watershed moment in her life. When Haddish was about 17, making out with her date in a movie theater while Cage’s film “Face/Off” played, she had her first orgasm, she said.
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