You can’t spell strange without Nicolas Cage. If it’s not his ‘out there’ on-screen performances, the actor likes to make headlines with something strange he has done or said. He appeared on ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,’ where no one saw the Cage’s strange revelation coming.

Nicolas Cage dialed his weirdness to 100 when he was handed a questionnaire by the host. When asked about his earliest childhood remembrance, Nicolas Cage stunned the host and the studio audience by revealing he has memories of being born. He also had a little something to say about the afterlife.

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Nicolas Cage Has Accurate Memories Of Being Born

According to Nicolas Cage, his memory goes back as far as being born. He revealed that his first formative childhood memory is being inside his mother’s womb. When appearing on late-night television to be interviewed by Stephen Colbert, he claimed he could recall seeing “dark faces” from before he was born.

Nicolas Cage added, “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.” He also talked about the afterlife, calling it a similar experience to having electricity in your body.

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Nicolas Cage On Taking “Crummy” Acting Jobs

The actor is never afraid of being honest and has been on a roll lately. Recently he told Sharyn Alfansi on the CBS show ’60 Minutes’  that he lost all his money in real estate and ended up owing $6 million to IRS. As a result, he had to take up as many acting jobs as he could to pay his bills. Critics have been hard on him for these direct-to-video movies, but he still stands by these jobs.

Nicolas Cage also talked about taking his acting method too far, recalling a memory from the set of ‘Vampire’s Kiss.’ As an ‘acting choice,’ he improvised and ate living, crawling cockroaches for a scene. The actor regrets hai actions, chalking it down to naivety. Over the years, there have been many stories of him taking things too far, but the actor seems to have toned it down.

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