Mike Figgis looks back on Leaving Las Vegas: “My credit rating had gone down a lot. I was known as a troublemaker”

As Leaving Las Vegas returns three decades on, director Mike Figgis revisits the making of his bruising story of addiction, how he reinvented his career through radical low‑budget filmmaking, and his memories of working with Nicolas Cage on his Oscar-winning performance.

Mike Figgis looks back on Leaving Las Vegas: “My credit rating had gone down a lot. I was known as a troublemaker”
As Leaving Las Vegas returns three decades on, director Mike Figgis revisits the making of his bruising story of addiction, how he reinvented his career through radical low‑budget filmmaking, and his memories of working with Nicolas Cage on his Oscar-winning performance.