{"id":158803,"date":"2023-06-09T17:12:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T11:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/why-dont-you-try-being-an-actor-johnny-depp-owes-his-career-to-nicolas-cage-and-a-game-of-monopoly\/"},"modified":"2023-06-09T17:12:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T11:42:24","slug":"why-dont-you-try-being-an-actor-johnny-depp-owes-his-career-to-nicolas-cage-and-a-game-of-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/why-dont-you-try-being-an-actor-johnny-depp-owes-his-career-to-nicolas-cage-and-a-game-of-monopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"“Why don’t you try being an actor?” Johnny Depp owes his career to Nicolas Cage and a game of Monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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<\/strong> and getting him the first role of his life.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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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<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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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?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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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<\/strong> in the interpretation and put him in touch with his agent<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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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<\/strong> like the franchise ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, ‘Edward Scissorhands’ or ‘Sweeney Todd’.<\/p>\n

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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”<\/strong> Cage concluded.<\/p>\n

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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. winning game To this day, both<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":158804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10746],"tags":[13757,11081,23168,14579,12767,10775,11147,11220,10767,10966,14580,21750,15378,23070],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/b66dec\/cage-depp\/840_560.jpeg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}