The teen comedy about a group of high school friends enjoys cult status today, not least thanks to early appearances by later stars such as Sean Penn and Jennifer Jason Leigh. For Nicolas Cage, who was still called Nicolas Coppola at the time, However, filming became a nightmare. He told the Hollywood Reporter:
I probably auditioned ten or eleven times for the lead role that Judge Reinhold got. [Es war eine] horrible experience. I was surrounded by colleagues, who didn’t like the fact that a young guy named Coppola was an actor. So the film made me change my name because I was getting so many negative reactions. [Einige Schauspieler:innen] gathered in front of my trailer and quoted lines from Apocalypse Now. This made it very difficult for me to believe in myself.
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Judge Reinhold and Nicolas Cage in I think I’m standing in the forest
Nicolas Cage is the nephew of the famous filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Some of Cage’s co-stars at the time apparently assumed that he had gotten the role from his celebrated uncle. The name change, which he made before the release of his next film Valley Girl, freed Cage from such experiences, in his own words. “A huge weight fell off of me and I said to myself, ‘Wow, I can really do this.’”
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