Nicolas Cage Says His 1st Memory Is From Inside His Mother’s Womb: ‘I Can Go All the Way Back to In Utero’
03.05.2023 - 21:59
/ usmagazine.com
Taking it way back! Nicolas Cage showed off his impressive memory skills by revealing he can recall a moment from inside his mother’s womb.
“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, 59, said during his Tuesday, May 2, appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. “I know that sounds powerfully abstract, but that somehow seems like it maybe 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.”
The Face/Off actor added that while he doesn’t “know” for sure if he remembers “being in utero,” it is something “that has crossed [his] mind” on occasion.
Cage’s comments came during the game “Questionert” with host Stephen Colbert, who asked the National Treasure star a series of questions – both light-hearted and deeply philosophical. In a more meaningful moment, the Oscar winner shared his belief on what happens after death.
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“Nobody really knows, but they say electricity is forever, that it’s eternal and the spark keeps going,” he explained. “I think whatever spark is animating our bodies, once our body passes on the spark continues to go. But whether or not that electricity has consciousness or not, who could really say.”
A sillier question, meanwhile, required Cage to reveal his “least favorite smell,” in which he referred to wife Riko Shibata’s furry friend.
“My wife’s pet Pomeranian’s crap,” he quipped, to which the 58-year-old talk show host replied: “That’s very specific.”
Cage and Shibata, 29, tied the knot