Nicolas Cageis showing off his jaw-dropping Las Vegas mansion, giving fans a peek inside the one-of-a-kind lair during an interview with60 Minutes,
“This is my black dragon. It’s a monitor lizard,” he says, showing the animal to host Sharyn Alfonsi, while touring what appears to be a two-story, wood-paneled library with a mezzanine and a massive glowing green chandelier. “He’ll get to be about 6 feet long. He’s like having a real dinosaur in your house. It’s kind of amazing. And he’s alive.”
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“It was a crazy beautiful Fellini movie, and it inspired me,” Cage explained. “So when I saw this. I said, “That’s the car.” It’s not a Ferrari, which would be great. But they don’t really have any gold Ferraris.”
After the pair pass through his home’s gates, viewers are taken inside the estate, where a sea turtle swimming in an aquarium, a pool table and an old-school jukebox can also be seen.
“He has taken to considering me names…it’s funny, in any event, it is to me,” Cage said in a previous sit-down with theLos Angeles Times. “At the point when I leave the room, he’ll say, ‘Bye,’ and afterwards go, ‘A**.'”
“Crows are very intelligent,” theFace/Offactor said in that same interview. “And I like their appearance, the Edgar Allan Poe aspect. I like the goth element. I am a goth.”
During the CBS interviewed, Cage also showed Alfonsi a picture of his mother, Joy, that sits on his mantel. She was a choreographer, who suffered from severe mental illness and was institutionalized for much of his childhood, she says.
The Oscar winner also recalled being $6 million in debt after the real estate market crashed, continuing to work back to back in order to pay what he owed.
“I was over-invested in real estate. … The real estate market crashed, and I couldn’t get out in time,” Cage explained, adding, “I paid them all back, but it was about $6 million. I never filed for bankruptcy.”
Alfonsi noted, “That had to be a dark period for you.”
Cage responded, “It was dark, sure,” and shared how booking roles “no doubt” helped him through it. “Work was always my guardian angel. It may not have been blue chip, but it was still work,” he said.
“No. It was about wanting to be James Dean in, inRebel Without a Causeand wearing that red jacket,” he said. “Wanting to be John inSaturday Night Fever. I came outta the cinema electrified. I was like, yeah, wanting to go there.”
Nicolas Cage inRenfield(2023).Universal Pictures
source: people.com
