Nic Cage: I Chased A Naked Stranger From My Home!
Sept. 15 2011, Published 9:45 a.m. ET
Oscar winner Nicolas Cage has revealed he once chased a naked stranger from his house!
The Leaving Las Vegas star -- speaking at a news conference at the Toronto film festival for his new film Trespass -- said: "I have lived through the nightmare, I have been one of those people who has been through a home invasion.
"I was living in Orange County in Los Angeles at the time, I was asleep with my wife, my two-year-old at the time Kal-El was in another room.
"And I opened my eyes and there was a naked man in my leather jacket eating a Fudgesicle ice lolly in front of my bed.
"It sounds funny. But it was horrifying. He ran into my bathroom, and I said, 'What are you doing in my house? Get out of my house!'
"And I did talk him into getting out, and some people came and they put him into a facility. I didn't press charges because I realised he wasn't all there."
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Even though Cage was fearful of his and his family's safety, he never at any point contemplated using violence to get rid of the intruder.
He added: "The cops said to me, if he had broken into any other house in this neighbourhood he'd have been shot.
But I don't have a gun in my house, and I'm always going to try and talk you out of violence if I can. But it was horrible for my wife, and I could never really stay in that house after that."