When you cast Nic Cage in a role, you’re going to get Nic Cage. “I always feel that it’s like music for me.”“There is a transformation going on here,” Cage tells Inverse. LionsgateThe Surfer’s Jungian journey puts Cage through the wringer in the most repulsive way, with Cage engaging in some of the wildest gross-out scenes of his career. “I remember all of that was just a big improv-y fugue state that he got into for that scene,” Finnegan recalls. But hey, he’s Nicolas Cage.