Beloved actor Nicolas Cage loves to play some truly unhinged characters on screen, but in real life? He’s a fairly chill guy.
He had hopes of marrying a woman, having kids with her and spending the rest of their life together. Unfortunately, things haven’t exactly gone according to plan.
During a recent chit-chat with The New Yorker, the 60-year-old actor spoke about having three kids with three different women.
They’re all different experiences. Each one has a different mother. It’s not what I had originally thought would happen when I fell in love or got married — that I would have three different children with three different moms — but nonetheless that’s what’s happened. So every child is different. There’s a different kind of level of attention.
Cage has been married a total of five times. He shares 33-year-old Weston with his ex, Christina Fulton. He also has an 18-year-old son with his third wife, Alice Kim, and a 2-year-old daughter with his fifth wife, Riko Shibata.
In the interview, Cage compared fatherhood to breathing.
Being a dad — to me, it’s not an art form, it’s . . . How do I put this? It’s like breathing. Everything is about her. You know, I can make a movie or not make a movie. I can’t stop being a dad. With her, it’s life. It’s my survival.
