He Was Stalked by a Mime in New York City
While filming the Martin Scorsese thriller Bringing Out the Dead, where he plays a New York City paramedic suffering from insomnia- and- trauma-induced hallucinations, Cage realized he was being stalked by a mime.
“I guess it would fall into the stalker category more or less,” he told Parade magazine in 2009. “I was being stalked by a mime—silent, but maybe deadly. Somehow, this mime would appear on the set of Bringing Out the Dead and start doing strange things… I have no idea how it got past security. Finally, the producers took some action, and I haven’t seen the mime since. But it was definitely unsettling.”
He Woke Up to a Naked Guy Eating a Fudgsicle at the Foot of His Bed
While promoting the 2011 movie Trespass, a thriller where he and Nicole Kidman are victims of a home invasion, Cage shared his own incredibly singular home-invasion story.
“It was two in the morning. I was living in Orange County at the time and was asleep with my wife. My 2-year old at the time was in another room. I opened my eyes and there was a naked man wearing my leather jacket eating a Fudgsicle in front of my bed,” he said at the Toronto International Film Festival while promoting the movie, adding, “I know it sounds funny… but it was horrifying.”
Cage then sold the house and moved to the Bahamas.
He Once Almost Bought a Cave to Have Sex With His Wife in It
During a Jimmy Kimmel Live! appearance this week, Cage’s first late-night show in over a decade, the mercurial actor addressed a rumor—spread by none other than his National Treasure co-star Diane Kruger—that he’d once purchased a literal bat cave.
“I got my [diving] certificate on the Great Barrier Reef; I explored the element of water. Air, I didn’t really get as far as I wanted to. I wanted to be a hang glider; it didn’t happen,” explained Cage. “Fire, I felt like Ghost Rider, I had explored the element of fire. Then, I wanted to explore Earth.”
Cage was in the Black Hills of North Dakota during filming on National Treasure: Book of Secrets, when he got wind of a cave that was for sale, so he decided to check it out. According to Cage, the cave was filled with “stalactites,” “milky quartz,” and “crystalline walls,” resembling Superman’s Fortress of Solitude.“At the time, I was married,” Cage elaborated, referencing his previous marriage to Alice Kim. “[I thought] I’d like to buy this and just go down in the bottom of the cave and get totally naked with my wife and drink.” Sadly, he did not buy the cave. And there were no bats...