While promoting his new film, Trespass, at TIFF yesterday, Nicolas Cage related his own experience with a trespasser in his home, which involved waking up to a naked man standing at the foot of his bed with a Fudgesicle. No really:
“It was two in the morning. I was living in Orange County at the time and was asleep with my wife. My two-year old at the time was in another room. I opened my eyes and there was a naked man wearing my leather jacket eating a Fudgesicle in front of my bed. I know it sounds funny … but it was horrifying.”
No, that’s definitely horrifying. It’s easy to get lost in the visual image, and giggle, what with the Fudgesicle. But if put yourself in that story and you take away the fact that the home invader happened to be enjoying a delicious frozen treat, you have the story of a strange, mentally imbalanced, nude man breaking into your home and standing over you in your bedroom, watching you sleep. It really doesn’t get any creepier than that.
There there, Nic. Let this hooker with a heart of gold chase away the nightmares.
Luckily for Cage, he was able to talk the man out of the house and the cops arrived shortly after. Cage said after the incident, he couldn’t stay in the house. He now lives in the Bahamas, where reportedly he has woken up neither to strange men in his clothes nor tell-tale sticky chocolate drips by the bed.
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