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Nicolas Cage doesn’t want to be a meme

By Madeline Fry Schultz
Published August 9, 2019 7:20pm ET
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Nicolas Cage doesn’t want to be a meme
US actor Nicholas Cage looks on at a charity event in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday night, Oct. 30, 2010. Cage is in Romania working on the movie Ghost Rider 2. | (Vadim Ghirda/ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Despite becoming one of the most popular faces on the internet, Nicolas Cage says he’s not trying to be a meme.

He didn’t mean to become an internet phenomenon, and he’s not paying that much attention anyway. In a wide-ranging interview with the New York Times published Wednesday, Nic “I’m going to steal the Declaration of Independence” Cage says he tries to stay offline:

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