Interesting facts about Hollywood’s strangest actor Nicolas Cage

The famous American actor Nicolas Cage is 58 years old. Today his filmography consists of about 100 roles, most of them — the main ones. But his name is more often mentioned in the media not in connection with his creative achievements.

His real name is Nicolas Kim Coppola. The famous director Francis Ford Coppola, who shot The Godfather, is his uncle.

His first success came to him at 19 years old, after his role in the movie Valley Girl. At the beginning of his career, he starred in projects of his famous uncle, but their cooperation did not last long.

About himself, the actor says: «I like to surprise the audience and myself. I try to play as many roles as I can and as many different characters as I can. My goal is to try all types of characters, all styles of cinema: action films, romantic comedies, art films.»

On the set of TheKiss of the Vampire, Cage, posing as a mad journalist, ate in front of the camera a live cockroach. And in order to play the most believable way to a drinking hero in the movie Leaving Las Vegas, the actor drank nonstop for 2 weeks. His friend filmed it on video, and then he played on the set of his behavior in this state.

After Nicolas Cage won an Oscar, his royalties increased tenfold, and by the early 2000s he has become one of the most popular, successful and wealthy actors in Hollywood — his capital was estimated at 150 million. However, his millions evaporated in just a few years. Large sums of money he spent on charity, helping children affected by military conflicts.

However, no less money the actor spent on lavish parties and his own whims. He got a private plane and several yachts, collected expensive cars and luxurious real estate (including three antique castles).

The actor also spent huge sums on exotic collections, which were considered the most extravagant in Hollywood. He acquired a dinosaur skull, which turned out to be stolen from a museum in Mongolia, and the valuable relic had to be returned. Cage gathered a collection of 400 vintage editions of comic books, which were later bought for $ 1.6 million.

Nevertheless, he was in private life. When he met 18-year-old actress Patricia Arquette in 1987, on the same day he asked her to marry him. The girl jokingly replied: «I probably would have married you. But on the condition that you get me a black orchid, an authentic Salinger autograph, a wedding dress of a Southeast Asian fox woman and a statue from the restaurant. And sing me a serenade.»

And he took and met all her requirements, and she had to agree to get married. The wedding was planned to play in Cuba, but during a flight delay, the girl was afraid of the recklessness of this step and ran away from the airport. The actor did not grieve long — the next year he had a new chosen one, actress Christina Falton, who soon gave birth to their son.

A few years later, fate brought Cage back together with Patricia Arquette, and this time the girl made him a proposal herself. In 1995 they got married, but the marriage lasted only nine months, although they were officially divorced only in 2001.

The second wife of the actor was the daughter of the legendary Elvis Presley. By the time she had already had two marriages, including one with Michael Jackson, and she was raising 2 children.

Lisa said: «We had a lot in common, and I admire his boldness because he separated from his family name and started a career on his own. He and I discovered some rebellious spirit in each other.» But over time, the couple began to clash. And after 109 days after the wedding the couple separated.

The actor met his third wife, Alice Kim, in a restaurant where she was working as a waitress. After a couple of months, Cage proposed to the 19-year-old girl, and 2 months later they got married. A year later, the couple had a son. Although this marriage was as hasty as the previous ones, it turned out to be the strongest. Together they spent 11 years. Their relationship was destroyed, according to one version, the infidelity of his wife, according to another — the actor’s addiction to drinking and physical abuse.

In 2019, the actor married for the 4th time to a girl who was 32 years younger than him. Cage drank heavily during the marriage, and when he came to his senses, he demanded an annulment on the 4th day. In February 2021 he again committed to marriage — this time with a 26-year-old Japanese.