It’s so satisfying to see actors who deserve some love get positive attention, and it seems like we are totally in an era of resurgences for stars who have previously stolen our hearts. While Brendan Fraser is in the midst of a Brenassiance, Nicolas Cage has also reached a kind of cult status, and is having a second (or third) wind in his career these days. On the heels of the actor playing himself in the semi-spoof film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent all of the weird, eccentric rumors that have surrounded him are resurfacing. Now, Cage has confronted the rumor that he was going to buy a cave while working on National Treasure, and his reason for wanting it is wild.
I think we were in North Dakota, in the Black Hills, when we were shooting one of the Treasure movies. I said, ‘I hear there’s a cave for sale, let’s go look at it.’ And I did, and it was beautiful. … There were all these stalactites, and it was all like milky quartz, like crystalline walls.
