10 Behind The Scenes Reasons For DCEU Characters' Quirks

Wonder Woman 1984 isn't a great movie, but you certainly can't accuse Pedro Pascal of not giving it his all as the villainous failed businessman Maxwell Lord.

Pascal gives a twitchy, sweaty performance with a manic vibe which many initially assumed was inspired by Michael Douglas' Oscar-winning turn as Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's Wall Street, but Pascal confessed he borrowed from someone a little more unexpected.

While on the press tour for his recent film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Pascal revealed that Lord's uniquely "chaotic energy" was actually influenced by the work of his Massive Talent co-star Nicolas Cage. Pascal said in an interview with EW:

"I remember shooting a scene in 1984 and, in the instant, I was like, what kind of energy do I need here?... And I remembered Nicolas Cage - before I ever met him, before the thought of ever making Massive Talent existed - I remembered him jumping on the desk in Vampire's Kiss, kind of torturing María Conchita Alonso [who portrays a secretary at the company where Cage's character works]. I remembered that scene and his energy, and obviously not deciding to do that, but just wanting a fraction of that kind of chaotic energy to make the scene that we were shooting that day work."

It certainly worked, and that Pascal got to work with Cage a short time later, in turn delivering one of the best cinematic bromances of the last few years, must've surely been the icing on the cake.