"I've been pounded to smithereens." Nicolas Cage talks about the new film 'The Surfer' and shares about his experience of getting up on the surfboard

Time of India

04-05-2025

Nicolas Cage
, well known for his action-packed scenes in movies, recently accepted defeat against the high tides as he talked about shooting for his latest film as a '
surfer
'. The actor shared how getting up on the surfboard and getting hit by the waves again and again was hard and 'blew him to smithereens'.
Cage's latest entertaining film, 'The Surfer'
Nicolas Cage transforms into a 'surfer' for his latest project, 'The Surfer', where he plays an unnamed businessman who goes all the way back to his home in Australia with the mission to buy back the beach house from his childhood. Contrary to the name, the actor does not do much surfing but still manages to hit the waves on screen.
The scene comes at the very end of the movie itself, where, after getting bullied by the townspeople and going into full-blown madness, the actor can be seen touching the waves.
Cage shares that he wanted to recreate an iconic scene from an old film
The actor told EW in an interview about his conversation with the director of the film, Lorcan Finnegan. He shared that "Lorcan and I talked at length about it. He knows that I wish I could have gotten to that point," revealing that he had hoped to recreate an iconic and well-known surf scene from the movie '
Big Wednesday
' from 1979.
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"I seem to remember in my mind's eye, Jan-Michael Vincent on the board and then the board wiping across the frame…. It was so beautiful in the water with the wiping of the board and then landing on its face in slow motion. I thought, Gee, I really want to get that shot, but I didn't have the time to get my skills to the point where we could do it."
The actor had trained well for the role and had taken
surfing lessons
as well to get into the character. The actor talked about all of the challenges that he faced while training for the role. In the interview he shared that "We had things like weather conditions and, believe it or not, shark reports and things, all that s---." Cage also ended up complaining to the interviewer that the paparazzi could not get a shot of him standing up on the surfboard and instead only took photographs of when he fell down.
Actor's experience with surfing
Nikhil also shared that he has attempted to surf again and again before but has been unsuccessful every single time. He said that "I have surfed, but every time I've attempted surfing, I've been pounded to smithereens. I surfed down on Sunset Beach. When I was trying to learn, my teacher gave me a shortboard. I said, 'Look, I want a longboard.'"
He then continued on, saying that "I just got pounded and literally got stuck in the riptide, and they said they saw my board; they call it 'tombstone', like that triangle top.'