Nicolas Cage and Butcher’s Crossing’s Cast and Director on the Cruelty of Hunting | TIFF 2022

The fun part of following Nicolas Cage’s career is that you can always count on the Academy Award winner to surprise you with whatever new project he’s working on. During the Toronto International Film Festival, Cage stopped by the Collider Supper Suite and Media Studio at Marbl to talk about his most recent film, Butcher’s Crossing. Collider’s own Editor-in-Chief Steve Weintraub talked to the cast and producers to highlight the important message of the movie. Butcher’s Crossing is about hunting and other cruel practices that took buffaloes to the brink of extinction in the 19th century. The species only survived with the help of Native American tribes. This is wrapped in the story of a man called Miller (Cage), who leads a group of buffalo hunters who chase massive herds in Kansas and beyond. They are joined by a young enthusiast who soon realizes his role model is not who he thought he was. Aside from Cage, the interview features director and screenwriter Gabe Polsky (The Motel Life), up-and-c