That was good, I like reading about the process of the movie, the rehearsals, all that. What a dream job for a young up-and-coming actor, really!

Another Cam Giganet TRESPASS interview, with insights into working with Nic, this one is a real treat!

I will just post the bits about Nic, but the whole interview is fascinating!

Cam Gigandet Talks "Trespass" And Going Head-To-Head Against Nicolas Cage

When Nicolas Cage calls you an “ass-f***” during a scene, you know that you’ve officially made it as an actor. In the new thriller Trespass, Cam Gigandet has the enviable honor of receiving the always explosive Cage’s craziest verbal darts.

The home invasion movie, directed by Joel Schumacher (The Lost Boys, Phone Booth), finds Cage and Nicole Kidman playing a married couple battling through domestic woes; he works too much, and she’s feeling neglected. Their teenage daughter (Liana Liberato) isn’t helping matters either, defiantly heading off to drug-filled house parties against her mother’s wishes. The dysfunction amplifies, however, when four ski-masked criminals force their way into the family’s house, hold them at gunpoint, and demand that Cage antes up with diamonds locked away in a safe.

Adding to the shoot’s difficulty, I’d imagine, was having to go toe-to-toe with Nicolas Cage during a number of intense scenes, with him in his always entertaining “ready to explode” mode. How was that experience?
To be honest, I was warned that he was going to be difficult, or crazy or whatever—all of the things that you’ve heard about him. But I was so surprised by how funny he is, and how enjoyable the process to work with him was. He is quirky, and he is funky and different, but that lends itself to so much creativity. Once you see someone like Nicolas Cage trying new things, taking risks, and having no judgment placed on anything that he’s trying, just trying it for the sake of exploring…. To see someone like that take the lead, you kind of get the confidence to follow in his footsteps. It was such a learning lesson to work with someone like him.

So people in the industry were giving you warnings about him?
Yeah, and I don’t know if it’s an earned reputation, and I don’t know if that just comes from me getting this advice from business-type people, where he’s just misunderstood in a way. But, on a creative level, he’s a dream come true.

Some of his dialogue in Trespass is really wild—it’s so out there that it doesn’t seem like stuff a screenwriter would actually write themselves. Does he do a lot of improv?
Yeah, there was definitely some off-the-cuff, improv moments, which is great because you think after rehearsing for two-and-a-half weeks we wouldn’t have the opportunity to experience anything new, but that certainly wasn’t the case. There was new stuff going on every single take. I remember there were times when he would try something new or different, or he would say something so unexpected that I couldn’t contain myself; I would just be on the floor laughing.

Let me guess: It was the scene when he calls one your character’s accomplices an “ass-f***.” Or the one where calls the guy a “shit-hole.”
[Laughs.] Right? Those words definitely weren’t on the page. It’s so funny when you’re there on set, too, because, in the moment, it just goes in one ear and out the other. But then you think back and ask, “Wait, did he just say that?” [Laughs.] He really is one of a kind.

You are welcome Gina and Yes! It again confims what I was saying in another thread about how Nic co-stars enjoy working with him!

"On a creative level he is a dream come true"

"He is quirky, and he is funky and different, but that lends itself to so much creativity."

"Once you see someone like Nicolas Cage trying new things, taking risks, and having no judgment placed on anything that he’s trying, just trying it for the sake of exploring…. To see someone like that take the lead, you kind of get the confidence to follow in his footsteps. It was such a learning lesson to work with someone like him."