Cage responded by calling Rogen “a funny guy and clearly a good storyteller.”
“I like Seth,” the statement says.
“He’s a funny guy and clearly a good storyteller.
Seth Rogen in ‘The Green Hornet’/Nicolas Cage.Jaimie Trueblood/Columbia; JC Olivera/Getty Images
I wish him luck with his book.”
EARLIER:Hopefully we never run out ofNicolas Cagestories.
Seth Rogentold a new one onThe Howard Stern Showthis week while promoting his new essay collection,Yearbook.
Naturally, Cage had some very out-there ideas about what kind of character he should play.
Cage’s first idea was to appear as a bald character with hair tattooed onto his cranium.
Rogen said he laughed “hysterically” on the phone before realizing Cage wasn’t kidding.
So then Cage came up with another concept: “a white Jamaican guy.”
“It set off a lot of alarms to us,” Rogen recalled.
“We were all just like, what’s happening?
At which point I was like, I don’t think he’s read the script!
He apparently left the gathering shortly after.
“We got a call like, Nic Cage wants to talk to you guys,” Rogen recounted.
The Jamaican meeting?'
We were like, no, I don’t know.
I was like, no, absolutely not, I think it was actually based on a Florida rapper.
He very clearly didn’t believe me, that was apparent.”
Watch the video above for more from Rogen.
