What is your first memory? According to specialists, some people could go back to their earliest childhood to remember these images, scenes that take them back to another time with some kind of meaning that their memory allows them to rescue.

That, the luckiest, because then there is the actor Nicolas Cage, capable of going back even further, to the very womb of his mother. At least, that is what the journalist Stephen Colbert has recognized in a recent interview.

Well yes, the actor appeared on the popular The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last month, where he was subjected to a series of questions on all kinds of topics, including what was the oldest memory he was able to recall. The actor, who was on the show to present his latest work, Renfield, surprised those present with a totally unexpected response.

“Let me think,” began the actor, who at 58 had to put himself in another position to access his memory. It was not for less, because he had to go back almost six decades: “I know that it sounds very far away, and I don’t know if it is real or not, but sometimes I think that I can go back to the womb and feel that I can see faces in the dark or something So”.

The actor, aware that he had left both the presenter and the audience speechless, continued: “I know it sounds powerfully abstract,” he added, “but somehow, it feels like it happened.”

Colbert wanted to know more about the mysterious “faces in the dark”, in case there were other people with Cage, but the actor explained: “Now that I’m no longer in the womb, I imagine that perhaps it was the vocal vibrations that resonated in me at that stage. That goes back a long time,” he finished explaining, “They are things that come to my mind. I don’t know.”

Talking to Nicolas Cage guarantees more than one surprise, and that is that the Oscar-winning actor is known for his extravagances (not surprisingly, he was nicknamed ‘The Martian James Stewart’). A beloved character, very popular and people expect him to commit his next eccentricity.

An actor with several marriages behind him, three children -Weston (32), Kal-El (17) and August (8 months)- who went bankrupt several times, obsessed with superheroes, who clashed with a government over a skull As a dinosaur, he owns two Royal albino cobras, he had to deny that he was a vampire and that he already has a pyramid-shaped tomb built for when he dies.