Nicolas Cage spent more than 150 million USD on bizarre hobbies such as buying haunted houses, dinosaur fossils, and building his own tomb.

For a long time, the public rarely mentioned Cage as an actor, even though he appeared in more than 20 film and television projects in the past three years. Instead, actor Speed ​​Ma is often remembered for his confusing and unusual actions. Recently, Nicolas Cage once again attracted attention when he married for the fifth time with his Japanese girlfriend Riko Shibata, 30 years his junior.

Cage’s personal life has always been a topic of interest. In mid-2019, the actor caused controversy with a video recording him getting drunk and singing the song Purple Rain in a bar in Las Vegas. Cage screamed bitterly to the surprise of the guests at the next table: “I never meant to make you suffer.

I just wanted to see you smile once.” That was also the first time Cage appeared in public after divorcing his fourth wife Erika Koike four days after the wedding. The actor said he asked for an annulment because he was too drunk and couldn’t control himself, so he got married in a hurry.

When the video spread widely on social networks, Cage told The New York Times : “I went to the bar with a friend. The bar owner said it was forbidden for customers to record, so feel free, but there were still two videos of me appearing. appeared online… I didn’t go there to sing. It was more like scream therapy. It was a weekend. I was newly divorced and didn’t want to go anywhere. That friend insisted on inviting me Go out and have fun.”

Before that, Nicolas had three marriages. He was married to Patricia Arrquette from 1995 to 2001. After that, he dated Lisa Marie Presley. According to People , they secretly got married in Hawaii in August 2002 and divorced three months later. In 2004, Nicolas married Alice Kim – a waitress at the restaurant he often went to, and divorced after 12 years of marriage.

Besides love affairs, Cage is famous for his eccentric lifestyle. The actor once traveled through many countries to find the Holy Grail, a treasure in Christian legend. In 2010, he bought land in a cemetery in New Orleans and built a pyramid-shaped mausoleum for himself. Co-star Idris Elba said that Cage once boasted of breaking into Dracula’s castle in Romania to find inspiration for filming… Explaining these actions to the New York Times , he said he wanted to build a mythology about himself. my life.

Nicolas Cage often wastes money on many strange things. In 2007, he competed with actor Leonardo DiCaprio, paying $276,000 for a nearly 70 million-year-old dinosaur fossil. Later, he discovered that the item was an antique stolen from a museum in Mongolia. Cage returned it and lost all of the auction money. 

He once spent millions of dollars to buy the mansion of Delphine LaLaurie (an 18th century slave owner convicted of serial murder), known as “the most haunted house in America”, to find creative inspiration. author of horror stories. Cage also raises dangerous animals in the house such as cobras, octopuses… NBCS reports that the actor spent about 150 million USD on his bizarre hobbies, as of 2017.

In an interview with the Guardian , Cage said he felt bothered by being stigmatized but said he was used to it. “I rarely use social networks. However, I understand that it is useless to confront the crowd… When talking about me, people mention castles, comics, cars and weird things. I’m like a watchdog. If I don’t have a job, I’ll be bored and become spoiled… The challenge for me on screen is to escape those concepts, to transform into the character.”

Nicolas Cage in “Face Off”, the video is often parodied by many people on social networks. Video: Paramount Pictures.

Four decades as an actor, Cage participated in more than 100 films and left many marks. He has won an Oscar, Golden Globe, MTV Movie Award and has been on the list of the highest paid actors in the world for many years. In Cengage’s acting textbook, Cage writes: “There is a fine line between being a good actor or a psychopath.” The secret to success, according to him, is walking between that boundary.

 He likes to transform and let the character develop naturally. Many times, he argued with the director and was threatened with dismissal.

Besides blockbuster films, Cage participated in many independent, low-budget film projects to satisfy his passion for acting. Actor Ethan Hawke praised him as “the first actor since Marlon Brando to breathe new life into the profession”. Director David Lynch gave Nicolas the nickname “Jazz musician in American cinema” because of his improvisational and explosive acting style.