Nicolas Cage admits he didn’t expect to have 3 kids with 3 women
Nicolas Cage didn’t see his unconventional family coming.
“It’s not what I had originally thought would happen when I fell in love or got married — that I would have three different children with three different moms — but nonetheless that’s what’s happened,” the actor admitted to the New Yorker in an interview published Monday.
Cage, who shares son Weston, 33, with ex-girlfriend Christina Fulton, son Kal-El, 18, with ex-wife Alice Kim, and daughter August, 1, with wife Riko Shibata, called each kid’s upbringing a “different experience.”
The “Wicker Man” star, 60, explained, “Each one has a different mother. … So every child is different. There’s a different kind of level of attention.”
He noted that raising his youngest child has been unique since having a daughter led to “different levels of worry and protection … taking [fatherhood] into overdrive.”
Cage is “very immersed” in August at the moment so “sleep is gone,” he quipped.
He quipped, “Sleep is gone.”
Shibata, 29, gave birth to the little one in September 2022, one year after she and the Oscar winner tied the knot in Las Vegas.
Cage has been married four times before, tying the knot with Patricia Arquette in 1995, Lisa Marie Presley in 2002, Kim in 2004 and Erika Koike in 2019 — the latter of which lasted only four days.
In 2022, the “Leaving Las Vegas” star told the Los Angeles Times that he finally “got it right” with Shibata, whom he met through mutual friends while filming “Prisoners of the Ghostland” in Japan.
“I know five is a lot,” he added at the time, calling himself really happily married.”
Cage proposed to the actress in 2020 over a video call.
“She left New York and went back to Kyoto, Japan, and I went back to Nevada and I haven’t seen her for six months,” he recalled on brother Marc Coppola’s radio show.
“So I finally just said, ‘Look, I wanna marry you,’ and we got engaged on FaceTime,” Cage continued.
The Golden Globe winner subsequently sent Shibata her engagement ring via FedEx.
