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Interview / Nicolas Cage and Marilyn Manson in Conversation

 

Nicolas Cage and Marilyn Manson in Conversation

20 October 2020

Nicolas Cage needs to work, but not necessarily for the reasons you and I need to work. At 56, the owner of one of the most eclectic filmographies in Hollywood history just can’t seem to slow down. Arsenal, Vengeance: A Love Story, Inconceivable, Mom and Dad, The Humanity Bureau, Dark, Mandy, Looking Glass, 211, Between Worlds, A Score to Settle, Color Out of Space, Running with the Devil, Kill Chain, Primal, Grand Isle. All released within the last three years, all featuring Cage in try-anything mode. Whether he’s teetering on the verge of mania or whipping himself into a campy frenzy, Cage is acting with the abandon of someone who has nothing left to prove. With good reason.

Nicolas Cage

A descendant of cinema royalty (his uncle is the filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola), Cage forged a path in the mold of the larger-than-life movie stars he grew up watching. But where they may have zigged, Cage zagged: first as a chiseled teen heartthrob in ’80s fare including Valley Girl, Rumble Fish, and Peggy Sue Got Married; then as the wickedly charming lead in auteurist oddities such as the Coen brothers’ Raising Arizona and David Lynch’s Wild at Heart; then as an Oscar winner for his role as an emotionally vacant alcoholic in Leaving Las Vegas; then as an action star in blow- ’em-ups such as Con Air, The Rock, Face/Off, Gone in 60 Seconds, and National Treasure. And now, against the backdrop of his B-movie bonanza, he enters, well, his Nick Cage metaphase: as Joe Exotic, otherwise known as the Tiger King, in a new miniseries based on the incarcerated, heavy-drug-using, polyamorous big-cat owner made famous by Netflix, and as a cash-strapped version of himself in next year’s The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. His days at the top of the box office largely behind him—he was once one of Hollywood’s highest-paid actors, earning $40 million in 2009— speculation about his career choices persist: Is he paying off debts? Is he supporting his taste for rare artifacts? Is he just bored? As he tells his friend, the musician Marilyn Manson, the answer is as complicated as it is simple.

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NICOLAS CAGE: I’m very excited that you’re interviewing me, especially since we’ve known each other for so many years.

MARILYN MANSON: The first time we met was nebulous, because we had several encounters. One of the most memorable encounters was when you bought my first painting at my first art show. You are a collector of many different things, art being one of them. We’ve talked about the living and dead creatures you’ve accumulated throughout your fascination with the unknown and things that are of unexplainable origin. Do you collect things as trophies, or is it something you connect with your childhood?

Interview / Marilyn Manson Ex Tells Truth About Manson's Innocence & Controversial Groupie Video

Marilyn Mason
by Julian Broad

Interview

Marilyn Manson Ex Tells Truth About Manson's Innocence & Controversial Groupie Video

The interview page source is a machine-generated transcript of the original video.

July 30, 2021

Colonel Kurtz: Hello everybody! Uh thank you for joining us! And I am so excited to have this guest here. I'm really appreciative that she's coming on to talk to us. She came forward wants to provide her insight on Marilyn Manson from the time that she spent with him and what she knows of him and and relate her own experience about what he's like. And she's not here to criticize any of the accusers or anything like that. She's just here to share her story. And so I'm really grateful that she is here with us and I just want to say hi! This is Pola Weiss!

Marilyn Manson

Pola Weiss: Hello!

CK: Very, she's very beautiful as you can see. So I think that you know we're going to have a conversation about a number of things. And so there'll be plenty of time for me to ask questions but I wanted to just kind of uh throw up on the floor to you uh at the outset. If there's if there's anything that you want to say right now or um is do you want to tell our audience you know why you're here?

PW: Yeah I'm here because I was watching everything that was happening. And it really hurts to see a friend get really dragged like that in the press. And I wanted to just get clarity for everybody on that but personally for me like I wouldn't feel right not coming forward knowing him and knowing who he is. I would have not been able to believe myself if I hadn't stepped forward and said something because it's just so unjust. You know, in my opinion.

Marilyn Manson / The Path of Misery

Marilyn Manson

THE PATH OF MISERY

Colegio de San Ildefonso

México City

Marilyn Manson / Demons in my bed

 

Marilyn Manson

DEMONS IN MY BED

Marilyn Manson / Women

Marilyn Manson

WOMEN

• Marilyn Manson – Brian Warner, known professionally as Marilyn Manson, formed Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids with Daisy Berkowitz in 1989. He has been the lead lyricist for every release by the band, and since becoming a professional musician, Manson has become increasingly involved in composing and producing the band's music. Manson's controversial exploits, from self-mutilation, sexual misconduct and an assortment of legal battles, have helped to establish the band as one of the most offensive major label acts today.
• MANSON WIKI

Work[EDIT]

From the beginning Manson has been a recreational painter, the oldest of his surviving pieces dating back to 1995, which he typically painted in order to trade the finished works for drugs with drug dealers. It wasn't until after his 1998 Grey period that Manson began his career as a watercolor painter. In 1999 he made five-minute concept pieces and traded them for drugs, with the knowledge that they may accumulate in value over time. Gradually Manson became more drawn to watercolors as an art form in itself, and instead of trading them, kept them and continued to paint at a proficient rate.

This manic creativity resulted in an exhibit for his art, The Golden Age of Grotesque, held at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Centre between September 13 and 14 of 2002. The reaction to his paintings was largely positive with one critic comparing them to Egon Schele's pieces and describing them as heartfelt and sincerely painted, and Art in America went as far as to liken them to the works of a 'psychiatric patient given materials to use as therapy'. Others however saw less merit in the works stating that the value was in the celebrity.

Two years later almost to the day, during September 14 and 15 of 2004, Manson held his second exhibit, Trismegistus, on the first night in Paris and the second in Berlin. Again the reception to the works could be described as mixed but was largely in favour of the artist.

Manson opened his own art gallery, The Celebritarian Corporation Gallery of Fine Art, on October 31, 2006 in Los Angeles for which his third exhibition (by invitation or appointment only, after the opening night) was the inaugural show. From April 2 until April 17, 2007 Manson's recent works were put on display at the Space 39 Modern & Contemporary Gallery Exhibition in Florida. 40 pieces from this show were ported to the Gallery Schenk in Cologne, Germany to be publicly exhibited from June 28 until July 28, 2007, after which they were returned to the Space 39 Modern & Contemporary Gallery.

Manson's next retrospective was on display at 101/exhibit in Miami's Design District thru Feb 20th 2009.

In 2010 Manson's an exhibition billed as "Hell, Etc.", was held in Athens, Greece at the Athenian Culture Centre throughout April 2010. In 2011 an exhibition for Manson's work was held at the Vienna Kunsthalle, "Genealogies of Pain". At the end of 2011, from November through to February 5 2012, 212 Productions staged an exhibition of Manson's paintings under the title of The Path of Misery. Manson explained at the event's launch that he had chosen paintings which he felt represented milestones on his path out of misery, something he also chronicles on eighth album Born Villain.

MANSON WIKI

Art book

• A coffee table book that would collect Manson's art was announced, initially titled The Death of Art. The last given title was Quintif. It was planned to be published by the makers of Flaunt magazine, though no mention of this project has been made in recent years.

MANSON WIKI

Evan Rachel Wood and Marilyn Manson

 

Evan Rachel Wood and four other women accuse Marilyn Manson of abuse

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Mon 1 Feb 2021 17.06 GMT

Evan Rachel Wood has accused her former partner Marilyn Manson of years of “horrific” abuse.

In an Instagram post, the actor wrote:

The name of my abuser is Brian Warner, also known to the world as Marilyn Manson. He started grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years. I was brainwashed and manipulated into submission. I am done living in fear of retaliation, slander or blackmail. I am here to expose this dangerous man and call out the many industries that have enabled him, before he ruins any more lives. I stand with the many victims who will no longer be silent.

Four other women – Ashley Walters, Sarah McNeilly, Ashley Morgan and Gabriella (with no surname given) – have also alleged abusive behaviour via public Instagram posts. McNeilly and Walters allege physical and emotional abuse, including behaviour they characterise as torture; Morgan alleges sexual and physical violence, and coercion; Gabriella alleges rape, physical violence and that Manson forced her to take drugs.

 

‘He really got into it’ … Marilyn Manson, in a shot taken
for the cover of his album Mechanical Animals, 1998. 
Photo by Joseph Cultice

My best shot

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Joseph Cultice’s best photograph: Marilyn Manson with prosthetic breasts

‘I wanted to make Manson look beautiful. But people found this image haunting and grotesque’

Interview by Henry Yates
Wed 16 Sep 2020 16.29 BST

In the late 90s, Marilyn Manson was the new rock star in Los Angeles. I’d already gone on the road with him and shot a few covers, including the Smells Like Children EP, and done the press shots for his album Antichrist Superstar. So I felt like I’d earned the album cover of Mechanical Animals.