Q: Did you find it challenging or intimidating to step into a character that people already know and has a set story and were you a fan of that character or have you read the comic book to research it?

NC: Well, it was simple, it may sound strange but I am Ghost Rider. (laughing) So it wasn’t that challenging to do that, I had all the honest, you know, ways of expressing that character and it will be interesting to see how the audience responds to that character.

Q: Why are you Ghost Rider?

NC: Well he’s a man who’s just trying to take a negative and turn it into a positive like we all do, we have been talking about that here today together with the Weatherman, trying to take movies and do something positive with any negative feelings that I have. Johnny Blaze is a superhero who had a very horrible thing happen to him and he’s taking that negative and he’s trying to make something positive out of it no matter what and um, that’s, in that way I guess you can say I am like Ghost Rider.

Columbia Pictures
Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Screenwriter: Mark Steven Johnson
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Wes Bentley, Eva Mendes, Matt Long, Sam Elliott, Peter Fonda

Synopsis: In order to save his dying father, young stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from the pure-hearted Roxanne Simpson, the love of his life. Years later, Johnny's path crosses again with Roxanne, now a gogetting reporter, and also with Mephistopheles, who offers to release Johnny's soul if Johnny becomes the fabled, fiery Ghost Rider, a supernatural agent of vengeance and justice. Mephistopheles charges Johnny with defeating the despicable Blackheart, Mephistopheles's nemesis and son, who plans to displace his father and create a new hell even more terrible than the old one.

Ghost Rider is set to release on July 14, 2006.