Exploring caves in the nude, being stalked by mime artists, owning a two-headed snake and giving a big gambling windfall to orphans are just some of the urban legends that have been circulated as true concerning the colourful life of Hollywood royalty Nicolas Cage down the decades.
Intriguingly, Cage was in the mood to bust or confirm many such myths on Jimmy Kimmel Live following his return to the talk-show circuit after a 14-year absence. The 58-year-old Leaving Las Vegas Oscar winner is busy promoting his new film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent and Kimmel took the opportunity to get answers to questions that many fans and movie goers have been dying to ask him for years.
The cave tale had actually been shared recently on 54-year-old Kimmel's show by Cage's National Treasure co-star Diane Kruger. She claimed that, while filming the Disney adventure movie series between 2004 and 2007, the Face/Off actor came close to buying a cave heaving with bats that he wanted to explore with no clothes on.