Nicolas Cage thought he was an ‘alien’ as a child

When he was a child, Nicolas Cage was convinced he was an alien.

Cage, 58, admitted that he was “shocked” to find out that he had “normal organs and a normal skeleton.”

“I was shocked the day I went to the doctor’s office as a child and I found out that I had normal organs and a normal skeleton because I was certain I was from another planet,” he told Rampstyle magazine.

The actor opened up about his childhood and his struggle to connect with others as a socially awkward kid.

“My father told me he felt like he had to introduce himself to me because I was such an alien,” he admitted.

But his difficulties to relate to others led him to pursue acting.

“I had difficulties connecting with other people. When I saw David Bowie in ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth,’ I realized I needed to do something, so I became an actor,” Cage said.

Cage has made plenty of headlines over the years for a list of urban legends — including a two-headed, gambling for orphans, nude cave exploration and mime stalkers. 

In April he opened up about these rumors on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” confirming that he did indeed win cash gambling and gave it to an orphanage and that he did have a two-headed snake at one point in his life. He also admitted to being stalked by a pair of mimes but said his fantasy of exploring a cave in the nude never came to fruition.

Cage, now a father of three, recently welcomed his first child with his wife Riko Shibata.