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It would be fair to say Nicolas Cage's acting has attracted a bit of criticism over the years.

The Hollywood star, who has enjoyed leading roles in the likes of Face/Off, National Treasure, Con Air and The Rock, is something of a cult hero for his portrayals, which often involve frantic fits of rage.

If nothing else, though, he's an actor who at least gets a room talking. Pub chats about films often lead to people discussing whether he’s a good actor or a truly terrible one.

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But his legacy won’t just live on through people disputing his acting credentials over a few pints. Well, not at one Bristol pub anyway.

Staff at The Three Tuns in St George’s Road are particularly fond of the Oscar-winning 54-year-old, who until recently lived in a £4m Bath house.

Their obsession began a few years ago, when bartenders Simon Calcraft and Laurie Dix decided to secretly hide images around the pub for customers to find.

Laurie then brought in a cardboard cutout of him given to her as a birthday present to proudly display in the window, which regulars instantly loved.

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But the cutout was taken out of the window a few months ago when refurbishment work at the pub started, which made those customers concerned that Cage was going to be erased from the pub completely.

So the pub decided to ease their concerns by going one step further: immortalising him by dedicating its new sign to him, much to everyone's delight.

Now, Cage can now be seen as a Napoleonic-era general staring moodily into the distance to those who approach the pub, like a beacon of Hollywood hope.

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Jenna Graves, who has been the pub’s landlady since 2014, said: “It’s been a bit of a running gag at the pub that we all love Nicolas Cage.

“When we took the cutout of him out of the window a few months ago, customers who had grown fond of it got really sad, so we decided to put his face on our new sign.

“We sold a special pint for £1.50 to raise money for it and our lovely customers were more than happy to keep buying it so we could get the sign made.

“It has been really well received so far and we’ve also put the cutout of him back in the window, so it really is like a shrine to him.

“Let’s hope we can get him over for a pint, we’d love it if he came to the pub.”