Is Johnny Depp What Nicolas Cage have long been known and loved all over the world, even if the star of such works as Birdie – Wings of Freedom, lunatic, From Vegas or beyond life since then he has had an easier life nephew of Francis Ford Coppola. Probably, without the presence of his friend Nick, Depp’s career would not have been the same.
As Cage himself told the New York Times, the two became friends from the 80swhen Depp was unknown: “I lived in an old Hollywood building called Fontenoy, I finished rent Johnny’s apartment and he started living there (…) We were good friends and one day we I play monopolyhe was winning the game, I looked at him and asked him why he wasn’t trying to be an actor.”
While Depp’s dream was to be a musician, so his first reaction was negative, but Cage insisted that he saw the potential and put him in touch with his agent. Eventually Depp agreed and it was Cage’s agent who gave him the first roleabout a young man who falls into bed with headphones and a TV in the first Nightmare – From the depths of the night (photo above, first one at the top right), the start of a great career
One of those encounters that might have gone nowhere, but instead helped lift one of Hollywood’s most popular actors:”You don’t usually get famous overnight.. But it happened to him,” Cage concluded.