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Fear-seeking NICOLAS CAGE wrestles fang-baring venomous snake as he surfs adrenaline waves of near- death.
Nic’s new movie “Joe” called for the fan fave to unleash some of his trademark lunatic antics,i.e. wrestling a poisonous “cottonmouth snake with very large fangs” for one scene.
"I wanted to get a bigger fear so that I could get on top of the smaller fear of playing the part,” he explained.
“The challenge was not having it bite me, but (it) also spit venom. So I had to hold it in a very careful way, and then when I tossed it . . .