Nicolas Cage
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Well, I don't want to go into too much detail, but it was not the calmest domestic environment.
And I could go and escape in the TV by watching shows or I could go in the backyard.
Amazing how much time I spent in the backyard without anybody checking on me.
I started digging a hole.
I thought I was going to dig my way to China.
And I kept digging and digging and digging and digging.
And nobody found the hole.
And I had a shovel.
And I kept digging.
I saw roots.
And I saw weird bugs.
And I kept digging and digging.
And I would cover the hole with a plank of plywood.
And someone uncovered it and said, do you see what Nikki's doing?
Oh, my God.
Look at the size of this hole.
Well, the upshot was it rained and then it was filled with water and I had like a pond of sorts.
But yes, I did get in trouble for the hole.
I got in trouble for the hole.
And I got in trouble for – because Evel Knievel was big back then.