Watch Nicolas Cage Go Off the Deep End in Wildly Intense Trailer forThe Surfer

Mar. 15, 2025

Nicolas Cageis hanging ten — or rather, hanging on to sanity — in his newest role.

The actor, 61, stars inThe Surfer, from Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions, which debuted at theCannes Film Festivalin May 2024.

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Nicolas Cage inThe Surfer(2025).Courtesy of Roadside Attractions

Courtesy of Roadside Attractions

“Humiliated and angry, the man is drawn into a conflict that keeps rising in concert with the punishing heat of the summer and pushes him to his breaking point,” the synopsis adds.

Cage hasn’t shied away from horror and thriller roles in recent years, including inThe Wicker Man(2006),Renfield(2023) and, most recently, last year’sLonglegs.

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Nicolas Cage on the poster forThe Surfer(2025).Courtesy of Roadside Attractions

At theToronto International Film Festivalback in September 2024,Kiernan Shipka, his costar in the latter film, told PEOPLE she was “in awe” ofCage’s transformationinto its titular character.

“I love Longlegs — I mean, not really,” quipped the actress of the Satanic serial killer.

“I went to the theater and saw it andwas so obsessed with it,” added Shipka, 25. “And then to be in it, it is crazy.”

The Surferis in theaters May 2.

source: people.com