To become someone in Hollywood, not only talent matters, but also contacts and luck. Like the one that brought Johnny Depp and Nicolas Cage together in a game of Monopoly that ended with Cage giving him his agent’s phone number and getting him the first role of his life.
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To this day, both Nicolas Cage and Johnny Depp are world famous. The ‘Search’ star had it a little easier (Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew, no more, no less) and, Without him, Depp’s career would not be the same..
As Cage told the New York Times, the two became friends back in the 1980s, when Depp was not known and he rented him a flat:
The truth is that we were already friends. I lived in an old building in Hollywood called Fontenoy, I ended up renting the apartment to Johnny and he started living there (…) We were good friends and we were playing Monopoly one day. He was winning the game, I was looking at him and I said: “Why don’t you try to be an actor?”
Back then, Depp’s dream was to pursue music, so his first reaction was to say he couldn’t. but cage He insisted that he saw potential in the interpretation and put him in touch with his agent.
Said and done: Depp finally agreed and it was Cage’s agent who got him his first role in ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’, giving the final shot to a career in which he has been chaining successes like the franchise ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, ‘Edward Scissorhands’ or ‘Sweeney Todd’.
One of those decisive meetings that could have come to nothing but that led to the rise of one of the most popular actors in Hollywood: “Becoming famous overnight doesn’t usually happen. But it did with him” Cage concluded.
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