Penny Lane wrote: Nic has many houses. in the interview you post he says several weeks out of the year. He probably will also do it with his other houses too, Bahamas, New orleans, etc,.. Didn't he just say not too long ago while in the Bahamas that he wants to live there and cut back on acting and direct films in the Bahamas?
-- Edited by Penny Lane at 13:04, 2007-02-06
Yes...also he allegedly bought a house in Somerset, England too!
Nic has many houses. in the interview you post he says several weeks out of the year. He probably will also do it with his other houses too, Bahamas, New orleans, etc,.. Didn't he just say not too long ago while in the Bahamas that he wants to live there and cut back on acting and direct films in the Bahamas?
In several interviews given after he received the Goldene Kamera award in Berlin last week, Nic has explained that he plans to live in Germany to give his younger son the opportunity to grow up in Europe. I translated some excerpts the best I could (not fluent in German, although I studied it for many years). He sounds like he has made his mind and is determined to move as soon as he possibly can...
That´s what he said in an interview for a German Radio Station: Nicolas Cage (43), Hollywood star and proud owner of a castle in Bavaria, wants to learn more German words. “I hope that I speak German in one year so well that I can converse also in German” This said Cage to the Ludwigshafener Radiosender RPR1 ( a German Radio Station). His maternal grandmother comes from Cochem to the Mosel. “As a child I grew up with her and could hear her speaking German, still remember some of it, for example “guck mal” (peep-a-boo) - I know no more what it means, but I want to learn.” Cage proved his language talent when he received the award of the golden camera of the TV-magazine “Hörzu”: in the category “film international” and gave part of his thank-you speech on Thursday in a well-behaved German. Cage had bought in the past year Castel Neidstein in the Upper Palatinate. “I want to live here. I love this country, the castle and the beautiful forest around”, said Cage to the transmitter. The castle was several centuries in the possession of only one family, “let´s see how many many generations of us can live there”, laughed the actor.
And that´s what he told the German press at the Gala after receiving his award:
Nic Cage means it, seriously: “We will surely live several weeks in the year here. I like the Germans and feel at home in this country.” 2008 should be when the actor moves with his family to Neidstein Schloss (Neidstein Castle) in the municipality of Etzelwang (circle Amberg Sulzbach). The construction works in the castle are to start soon, the actor told the journalists. “There is still much to do”. A German language course occupies the US actor. He said he will take still another private teacher it after his appearance in the Goldene Kamera awards, where he greeted the audience in flawless German. “German is sexy! Honestly. I like the sound of the language very much.” The German language flows like a river and reminds me of the world ofthe Grimm Brothers fairy tales: “Perhaps that´s the reason I bought the castle in Etzelwang”(approximately 1500 inhabitants). He wants to bring along Mrs. Alice Kim (his third marriage) and his one year old son named Kal El. “I would like that my son grows up here in Europe, in this rich culture. He is to get another view into the world, different than the one in the USA.” Proximity to London: Cage seems to have fell particularly for the gastronomy in this country, which he favours. “I like pork knuckle with sauerkraut. And small sausages. I have to hold the terrible notion that it will become not easy to keep my actual weight here.” And this citizen of the world sees another perk for moving to a location like Etzelwang, likewise: “London is also not far away.”
