Cage Ducks Divorce Questions, Pushes Films
Dec. 10 -- All work and no personal questions make Nicolas Cage a happy man.
Just a week after Cage filed for divorce from Lisa Marie Presley, he met reporters in New York, eager to talk about his two new films but unwilling to talk about his 108-day marriage.
Presley and Cage were last seen together in public on Nov. 23, holding hands at a screening of Adaptation in Los Angeles. Two days later, he filed for divorce, citing "irreconcilable differences" in court papers.
Now, the 38-year-old Oscar-winning actor is busy promoting two projects, Adaptation, in which he plays twins, and Sonny, the tale of a male prostitute that marks his directorial debut.
"Creatively, I'm in a very happy place," he told reporters. "I'm re-inspired when I think about acting and future projects."
As for his divorce, he's not talking.
"I don't feel as though I have any responsibility to talk about my personal life," Cage said. "It's not fair to the people who aren't here."
A Practiced Silence
Cage was once candid about his private life, talking in detail years ago about his mother's struggles with mental illness. But he made it a policy not to talk about his private life during his first marriage, to actress Patricia Arquette. They divorced last year.
Nevertheless, Cage's initial attraction to Presley came as no surprise. He's always been an Elvis fanatic. At one point he even considered building a replica of the King's Graceland mansion in California.
Just after the couple's Aug. 10 wedding in Hawaii, the newlyweds even slept in Graceland to mark the 25th anniversary of the bride's father's death.
What did surprise stargazers, however, was when Cage sold off his prized comic collection — which included the 1938 first issue of Superman — for a cool $1.5 million. The whisper in Hollywood was that Presley forced him to sell the collection because it took up too much space, and that the couple was fighting over where to live and whether to have children.
Now Presley, 34, is saying the marriage was a mistake. "We shouldn't have got married in the first place," she told reporters.
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