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Jan 28, 2022
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Nicolas Cage has delighted fans after he declared that he is a "goth" in a recent interview where he also revealed he has a pet crow.
Set to play perhaps the most iconic gothic figure of all time, Dracula, in Universal’s upcoming horror movie Renfield, Cage chatted to theLos Angeles Times about this role and his pet crow Hoogan who also got a mention too.
The bird lives with him in the actor's Las Vegas home in a geodesic dome and Cage divulged how Hoogan insults him, calling him an "Ass" - much to the actor's amusement.
“He has taken to calling me names…it’s comical, at least, it is to me," Cage told the LA Times .
"When I leave the room, he’ll say, ‘Bye,’ and then go, ‘Ass.’ Crows are very intelligent. And I like their appearance, the Edgar Allan Poe aspect. I like the goth element. I am a goth.”
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Cage has also played the role of a man who was convinced he was a vampire in the 1988 film Vampire’s Kiss and also has been forced to deny the conspiracy theory that he is a vampire after a photo of a man from 1870 that bears an uncanny resemblance to him was posted on eBay in 2012 which read: "Nicolas Cage is a Vampire," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
"Now look, I don’t drink blood and the last time I looked in the mirror I had a reflection," Cage told David Letterman at the time.
Given all of these vampire themes within his life, along with his recent goth admission and pet crow, you could say it was inevitable that Cage would play Dracula at some point in his acting career.
Of course, the internet had a field day when they found out that Cage identified as a goth and has a pet crow as fellow goths welcomed him into the community, while others made some hilarious memes from the random news.
Here are the best 25 reactions:
when my PE teacher asked why i won't run the mile in 7th gradehttps://twitter.com/Variety/status/1486762214321057795\u00a0\u2026— eric curtin (@eric curtin) 1643321231
We've always known, Kinghttps://twitter.com/Variety/status/1486762214321057795\u00a0\u2026— Marie (@Marie) 1643308264
Perfect headline. No noteshttps://twitter.com/Variety/status/1486707173371617282\u00a0\u2026— Sydney Urbanek (@Sydney Urbanek) 1643301329
Me when someone asks why I haven\u2019t answered their emailhttps://twitter.com/variety/status/1486762214321057795\u00a0\u2026— Jess Dweck (@Jess Dweck) 1643320558
This is the kind of news I want to see in my feed.https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1486762214321057795\u00a0\u2026— Roxi Horror \ud83d\udc80\ud83c\udf38 (@Roxi Horror \ud83d\udc80\ud83c\udf38) 1643321333
This isn't funny. A goth phase later in life can be fatal, that's why it's so important to get it when you're young and your immune system is strong.https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1486762214321057795\u00a0\u2026— Jesse McLaren (@Jesse McLaren) 1643331825
blacked out and when i woke up this was the only thing in my camera roll https://twitter.com/variety/status/1486762214321057795\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/mI4nHfcMPl— bee alexander (@bee alexander) 1643358851
nicolas cage is a goth https://twitter.com/AliveAgain888/status/1486932490371559424\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/YQPKkbidVF— ai_curio_bot (ADMISSIONS OPEN) (@ai_curio_bot (ADMISSIONS OPEN)) 1643351700
congrats to nicolas cage on coming out as gothhttps://twitter.com/variety/status/1486762214321057795\u00a0\u2026— milleny (@milleny) 1643325017
this is his bargaining chip for getting into the When We Were Young concerthttps://twitter.com/Variety/status/1486762214321057795\u00a0\u2026— Xalavier Nelson Jr. (@Xalavier Nelson Jr.) 1643355223
I picture him walking in the room, saying this, then leaving the roomhttps://twitter.com/variety/status/1486762214321057795\u00a0\u2026— Khail (@Khail) 1643345687
this is the mainstream goth representation we\u2019ve been waiting forhttps://twitter.com/variety/status/1486762214321057795\u00a0\u2026— simone! (@simone!) 1643341541
we knew but live ur truth kinghttps://twitter.com/variety/status/1486762214321057795\u00a0\u2026— knox (@knox) 1643325555
my friends asking me why im wearing an entirely black outfit when i knew it was going to be hothttps://twitter.com/variety/status/1486762214321057795\u00a0\u2026— sian (@sian) 1643355187
\u2026okay\u2026\u2026 https://twitter.com/variety/status/1486762214321057795\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/3MbC2iZsOh— Adrian (@Adrian) 1643328651
When my mom asked 13 year old me why I was wearing so much eyelinerhttps://twitter.com/Variety/status/1486762214321057795\u00a0\u2026— Jessica (@Jessica) 1643342964
National treasure is now canon gothhttps://twitter.com/variety/status/1486762214321057795\u00a0\u2026— Amy Gaeta (@Amy Gaeta) 1643325374
we got another one lads https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1486762214321057795\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/tPaIABVz8K— batman with a blunt (@batman with a blunt) 1643325326
Me when I announced to my fourth grade class that Bring Me To Life was my favorite songhttps://twitter.com/variety/status/1486762214321057795\u00a0\u2026— \ud835\udd43\ud835\udd3c\ud835\udd4f (@\ud835\udd43\ud835\udd3c\ud835\udd4f) 1643334483
me, buying a skull at t j maxx:https://twitter.com/variety/status/1486762214321057795\u00a0\u2026— the lehr witch project (@the lehr witch project) 1643324495
Me after my annual rewatch of twilighthttps://twitter.com/variety/status/1486762214321057795\u00a0\u2026— Matt\ud83c\udf41\ud83c\udf42 (@Matt\ud83c\udf41\ud83c\udf42) 1643342651
everything i learn about nicolas cage is against my willhttps://twitter.com/variety/status/1486762214321057795\u00a0\u2026— zoe \u2728 (@zoe \u2728) 1643327519
Sorry it was gonna bother me if I didn\u2019t do this. https://twitter.com/variety/status/1486762214321057795\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/kgEAoPPHoN— Selena Quesadilla (@Selena Quesadilla) 1643326635
https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1486762214321057795\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/TlL4vBwGiI— Lebbertoxd (@Lebbertoxd) 1643327790
IM DYING he literally juat bought a crow and thinks he's gothhttps://twitter.com/Variety/status/1486762214321057795\u00a0\u2026— Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair \ud83e\udda5 (@Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair \ud83e\udda5) 1643332604
Cage also described in the interview how he is "happily married" to his fifth wife Riko Shibata who he wed in February last year and added: "I think I got it right this time."
It was announced earlier this month that the couple are expecting their first child together.
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