From eating a live cockroach on camera to shaving down his teeth to accommodate prosthetic vampire fangs, Nicolas Cage is known for going above and beyond for his performances — so it's not exactly surprising to learn that the star's commitment to his craft nearly got him killed.
While training for his new movie, The Surfer, Cage took surfing lessons in Australia to brush up on his skills...but was met with a series of challenges, from time limitations to "weather conditions" to "shark reports," as he told Entertainment Weekly.
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“I have surfed, but every time I’ve attempted surfing, I’ve been pounded to smithereens,” Cage admitted. “I surfed down on Sunset Beach. When I was trying to learn, my teacher gave me a shortboard. I said, ‘Look, I want a longboard.'”
Unfortunately, even a longer board didn't help matters much.
"I just got pounded and literally got stuck in the rip tide, and they said they saw my board, they call it 'tombstone,' like that triangle top," Cage explained, adding, "I'm climbing up the leash as I'm somersaulting, and I could have died. Now I have a young kid, I don't know if I want to do it anymore."
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Still, the Raising Arizona star said he's keeping an open mind about the sport.
“The goal is to retire, surf, drink red wine and eat spaghetti," he said.
According to The Hollywood Reporter,The Surfer tells the story of a man (Cage) who "returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son. However, when he’s humiliated by a group of locals, the man is drawn into a conflict that pushes him to his breaking point."
The Surfer is currently playing in theaters.
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