Nicolas Cage claims his earliest memory was inside his mother's womb before being born
Nicolas Cage said his earliest memory was being inside his mother's womb.
While most of us only have a hazy recollection of our time as a baby or toddler, the actor claims his memory goes back way further.
It's hard to believe, but Cage thinks his first ever memory was being in-utero.
Yes, before he was even born.
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He recalled the moment while talking to Stephen Colbert on The Late Show last year.
“Let me think. Listen, I know this sounds really far out and I don’t know if it’s real or not, but sometimes I think I can go all the way back to in-utero and feeling like I could see faces in the dark or something,” Cage said.
“I know that sounds powerfully abstract, but that somehow seems like maybe it happened.
“Now that I am no longer in-utero, I would have to imagine it was perhaps vocal vibrations resonating through to me at that stage.
“That’s going way back. I don’t know. That comes to mind… I don’t even know if I remember being in-utero, but that thought has crossed my mind.”
During the chat, Cage also answered some other rather hard-hitting questions.
Colbert asked: "What happens when you die?"
To which Cage responded: “Oh, wow. Nobody really knows, I don’t know. They say that electricity is forever eternal. That the spark keeps going.
"I like to think whatever spark is animating our bodies, once the body passes on, that the spark continues to go. But whether or not that electricity has consciousness or not, who can really say?"
He also claimed his idea of the 'scariest animal' was a centipede.
"Look at it. They’re important, they help the Earth, But they are scary, and they are very vicious in the natural realm," Cage said.
"The way they eat crickets is like a garbage disposal with the mandibles."
In other bizarre Nicolas Cage news, the actor spent a lot of his formative years in the firm belief that he was an extra-terrestrial and was actually shocked to find out that he was just a normal human.
In an interview with Rampstyle magazine in 2022, Cage explained: “My father told me he felt like he had to introduce himself to me because I was such an alien.
“I was shocked the day I went to the doctor’s office as a child and I found out that I had normal organs and a normal skeleton because I was certain I was from another planet.”
There’s never a dull moment with Nicolas Cage, is there?
Lucy Devine