Don’t expect Nicolas Cage to pick up a lightsaber anytime soon. During an interview with Yahoo Entertainment, the star of The Unbearable Weight of a Mammoth Talent revealed that he’s not thrilled with the idea of traveling to a galaxy far, far away.
“I’m a Trekkie, man,” says Nicolas Cage. “I’m on the Star Trek Enterprise. That’s where I belong.”
Cage recently starred in The Unbearable Weight of a Mammoth Talent alongside a true Star Wars legend: Pedro Pascal, who is famous for playing Din Djarin, aka The Mandalorian, in the Star Wars universe. But it looks like Cage won’t be joining his co-star. because of his love for Star Trek.
“I grew up watching [William] Shatner,” he explained. “I thought Pine was great in the movies. I think the movies are exceptional. I like political and sociological messages. For me, science fiction is such an important genre because you can say what you want, what you feel. You put it on a different planet, in a different time or in the future, and without people jumping on you, you can express your thoughts like Orwell or whoever in the sci-fi format. And Star Trek really embraced it.”
Whether there will be a place for him on the command bridge of the Enterprise ship remains to be seen. But one thing is for sure: he has no interest in switching his allegiance to Star Wars.
“It’s a fact,” he added. “I don’t belong to the Star Wars family. I’m in the Star Trek family“.
If you want to know more about the actor, check out what we think are the 15 best Nicolas Cage movies, as well as why Cage won’t return as Spider-Man Noir in the upcoming Crossing the Multiverse.
