He plays Johnny Blaze, a stunt motorcyclist who makes a deal with the Devil to try to save his stepfather. As a result he becomes a demonic bounty hunter cursed with the ability to ignite his head, body and bike with hellfire.
Eager to disassociate himself from the poorly-received first film, Cage has made it clear Spirit of Vengeance is not a direct sequel but rather a completely new take on the character.
Speaking in an interview to promote the new movie from co-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, Cage said he was happy this time to fully perform the role of the Ghost Rider rather than just play his human alter-ego.
But how exactly do you portray an antihero with a burning skull? Cage revealed that he got into character using occult symbolism and other unusual influences so that he started to believe he was a supernatural being.
He explained: "This was an opportunity to experiment with movement and with my state of mind, I really believed I was this character. It was actually Brian Taylor who had the idea for me to do that. He was an enormous advocate of it.
"The first thing was in New Orleans and I said 'Well can I wear a mask?' so as not to feel totally ridiculous when I walked on the set to play this part. But there was a writer named Brian Bates who wrote this book called The Way of The Wyrd and also The Way of the Actor and in that book he put forward the notion that all actors, whether they know it or not, come from a long distant past of medicine men and shamans, pre-Christian in these villages. And what this shaman would do is he would go into an altered state of consciousness to try and find answers and solutions to give to the villagers.
"In this day and age that person would be considered psychotic but when you think about it, it was a way of channelling t...
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[Source: Coventry Telegraph - The Geek Files]
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