Nicolas Cage purchased a two-headed snake after being visited by one other two-headed creature in a dream.
The 59-year-old actor was left baffled when he had a nocturnal imaginative and prescient of a dicephalous eagle however then the next day, he acquired a proposal he felt he could not refuse due to the unconscious sign he’d acquired.
He informed The Guardian newspaper: “Isn’t that so wonderfully bizarre? Yes, I was dreaming about two-headed eagles.
“I don’t know what to take from that – and then the next day, some guy called my manager to ask if I was interested in buying a two-headed snake.
” I couldn’t say no because I was connecting the dots. It was too beautifully weird.”
However, the ‘Pig’ actor finally donated the reptile to a zoo when he realised how complicated its care could be, corresponding to having to maintain the heads aside with a spatula at meal instances to forestall them preventing.
He famous: “Crazy stuff.”
Nicolas – who performs a professor who visits individuals’s goals in his latest film ‘Dream Scenario’ – typically sends an enchantment for a “reward” when he is asleep if he wants some steerage on his work.
He mentioned: “If I’m stressed about how to play a scene, I’ll ask for a gift from my dreams.
“Sometimes I’m so nervous about not having any hook on a scene that I’ll go to bed and dream about it and then I’ll get some residual feeling that I can apply to the performance.”
The ‘Raising Arizona’ actor has change into a viral sensation in recent years with many memes notably devoted to his explosive anger in motion pictures, and he admitted he discovered the quick clips “irritating” however finally hoped they’d introduce his work to individuals who would not in any other case have seen his movies.
He defined: “I might need been the primary actor who went by means of a sort of meme-ification.
“One person had cherrypicked from all these completely different motion pictures the place I used to be having meltdowns, however with none regard for a way the character received to that place. I used to be annoyed as a result of I didn’t know what individuals had been taking from the flicks aside from that.
“I didn’t perceive tips on how to course of what was occurring. I received into performing as a result of I used to be moved by movie efficiency greater than every other artwork kind. I didn’t get into motion pictures to change into a meme. That was new. I made mates with it nevertheless it was an adjustment.
“I assumed perhaps they’d compel somebody to return and have a look at the flicks. But I had no management over it.”
