Nicolas Cage: I don’t like being called an actor, I prefer thespian

The star likened his artistic process to shamanism 

Nicolas Cage at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in July 2021. (PA)

Nicolas Cage says he prefers to be called a thespian rather than an actor but acknowledged he risked sounding like “a pretentious a-hole”.

The Oscar-winner likened his process to “shamanism” by “going into the imagination”.