He is a golden statue film emperor with explosive acting skills, and he is also a "box office poison" with flashy and bad films; he is a wayward rich man worth hundreds of millions of dollars and spends a lot of money, and he is also a street drunkard who is heavily indebted and uncared for.
He experienced young fame, drunken dreams and deaths surrounded by flowers, and also suffered failures, and after the great enlightenment, he bravely moved forward and finally found his beloved, he was Nicolas Cage.
In September 2021, at the age of 57, he lost his last $150 million and went bankrupt. Let's take a look at his "legendary" life.
Nicholas Cage was born in California in January 1964, where his uncle was Francis Ford Coppola, director of the acclaimed Oscar-winning best film The Godfather.
Perhaps because of this relationship, Nicolas Cage entered the film industry at the age of 17, and at the age of 18, he starred in his uncle-directed work "Birdman" and thus rose to prominence in the entertainment industry, which received unanimous praise from the outside world.
With constant struggle, Nicholas Cage went further and further in his acting career. In 1996, he won the annual Academy Award for Best Actor in the movie "Leaving Las Vegas" in the movie "Leaving Las Vegas", ushering in the peak of his acting career.
In addition, there are a series of divine works such as "My Heart Is Wild", "National Treasure", "King of War" and so on.
The huge success of his career also brought Nicolas Cage a lot of money, and his film salary reached a staggering $20 million, you know, that was more than 20 years ago! Nicholas Cage's assets reportedly peaked at $150 million.
However, as a billionaire, Nicholas Cage seems to lack financial knowledge, not only spending money, but also having a different consumer habit. He spent $3.45 million to buy a murderous mansion and $300,000 to buy a 67-million-year-old skull, but the skull was eventually identified as stolen and eventually returned to its owner.
He even bought two albino cobras, which are said to inspire his performances in the film, but comically enough, the two snakes end up in a zoo; in addition to the islands, castles, comic books, pyramid tombs, Martian meteorites, pet octopuses that were built or bought at great expense...
Finally, the global financial crisis of 2008 turned a series of bizarre investments into bubbles for Nicholas Cage. To make matters worse, in 2009 he was found to have evaded more than $14 million in taxes and faced huge reparations.
It seems that just overnight, the famous billionaire became a "billionaire", and some people even photographed him drunk on the street being chased away as a homeless man by waiters in a restaurant.
Even so, Nicholas Cage still showed his stubborn side, "No one is going to go bankrupt because they have a pet octopus".
However, the dilemma of life did not make him choose to sink, as he said: "Failed investment and the financial crisis have wiped out most of my assets, but I will never file for bankruptcy, because I have a strong sense of self-esteem, and I will solve the current dilemma through my own way." 」 And his solution is - crazy bad movies.
Since then, Hollywood has ushered in a violent "mudslide" under the operation of Nicholas Cage, who is eager to pay off debts. With an average annual "record" of 3-4 bad films, he "won" the worst male actor of the Golden Plum Award in just 10 years, although he also had such a masterpiece as "Mandy", but in the end it was difficult to escape the title of "King of Bad Films".
However, shooting bad films is not useless for Nicholas Cage, during which time he harvests a sweet love and finds his fifth wife, Shibata Pear, who is 31 years younger.
As we all know, Nicolas Cage's previous marriage was not as smooth as his early acting career, and he had four marriages with actor Patricia Aquet, Elvis Presley's daughter Lisa Marie Presley, Korean waiter Alice King, and Japanese makeup artist Erika Koike, all of which ended abruptly.
However, while filming a 3.7-point movie with a score of 3.7, "Prisoner of the Land of Ghosts", he met and fell in love with his fifth Japanese wife, Shibata Pear, in early 2020.
After announcing the relationship for 6 months, the two were very "foreign" through the online engagement. However, at that time, many fans were not optimistic about his little wife, thinking that she was not worthy of Nicolas Cage anywhere except for her youth.
First, Shibata was not famous, and people didn't know her at all until she announced her relationship with Nicholas Cage; second, she thought she was very ordinary looking, and apart from being thin, there was no flash at all, and said that she looked like a student. However, despite what others said, Nicholas Cage still identified Shibata Pear in his heart.
Born on January 10, 1995, Shibata Ishiko is a japanese actress who is not yet well known, and when she was 3 years old, her mother ran away from home because of a fierce quarrel with her father. Her father was a father and a mother, so he sent her to a welfare home.
From elementary school to middle school, Shibata Stayed at the welfare home for 10 years. She has always had a great passion for acting and later became a minor actress under Picaro Enterprise.
In 2018, she also appeared on a family search show, saying that becoming an actor was not only her dream, but also to find her mother who had been lost for 20 years. Unexpectedly, later the program team really found a mother for her, and the mother-daughter recognition scene once made people cry.
It was perhaps Nicolas Cage, 31, who gave Shibata Pear enough security to finally accept the uncle's pursuit, and the two married in Las Vegas in February 2021. Seven months after their marriage, 57-year-old Nicholas Cage spent his last $150 million and declared bankruptcy.
And his fifth-married Japanese petite wife did not leave him because of his bankruptcy, the two are still very affectionate, it can be seen that the two people are true love, before fans said that Shibata Pear is not worthy of Nicholas Cage. And it turns out that Nicholas Cage really didn't look at the wrong person, and Shibata Pear is not a person who hates the poor and loves the rich.
Nicholas Cage himself confessed that after meeting Shibata Pear, he understood what love is, and she was his "true destiny".
Not only that, but in January of this year, there was also good news that Shibata Pear was pregnant, and soon Nicholas Cage would be holding a mixed-race baby, which was really good news. This is also the third time he has become a father, and his eldest son is actually 4 years older than Shibata Pear!
Here, we sincerely wish Uncle Nicholas Cage a happy and happy life with his japanese petite wife, and sincerely wish him to pay off his debts as soon as possible and stop bringing "visual disasters" to the fans who support him again and again.