Look, there’s no denying Nicolas Cage is an odd dude. That’s not meant to be an insult either. It’s just the truth. He thinks in ways that most people, especially in his profession, don’t. So, when you ask him about his first memory, you have to expect it’s going to be a strange, somewhat baffling response.
In an interview on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” the host puts Nicolas Cage through a series of random questions. Is there an afterlife? Cats or Dogs? Apples or Oranges? Things like that. But the conversation goes a bit wacky when Stephen Colbert asks Cage what the actor’s earliest memory is? Cage, without any sort of irony, answers the question in a way that not only makes you scratch your head, but is also the most Cage-iest answer ever that we should have almost expected it.
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“Listen, I know this sounds really far out and I don’t know if it’s real or not,” Cage said. “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 I know that sounds powerfully abstract, but that somehow seems like maybe it happened.”
He 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.”
As you might expect, Colbert was taken aback and said that he wouldn’t doubt that Nicolas Cage could remember all the way back to when he was in utero.
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Cage replied, “I don’t even know if I remember being in utero, but that thought has crossed my mind.”
It’s definitely a strange story, but it just adds another layer to the mystique that surrounds Cage. He just continues to build a legacy that seems like it will be unmatched by anyone else. Nicolas Cage is truly one of a kind.