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Nicolas Cage took his new wife to visit his pyramid-shaped tomb in New Orleans because he wanted to show her 'meaningful' places from his life

Jul 17, 2021, 18:29 IST
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Nicolas Cage opened up about the unusual, but "meaningful," experience of taking his wife Riko Shibata to visit his tomb. Kevin Winter/Getty Images
  • Nicolas Cage says he took his now-wife to his tomb in 2020 to show her "meaningful" places to him.
  • Cage said his wife, Riko Shibata, also took him to places in Japan that were meaningful to her.
  • The two were married in Las Vegas in February after getting engaged over FaceTime.
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Nicolas Cage says he took his wife, Riko Shibata, to visit his tomb in New Orleans at the beginning of their relationship last year because he wanted to show her places that were "meaningful" to him.

Cage explained the February 2020 tomb visit, the couple's first known public appearance, in an interview with GQ's Gabriella Paiella published on Wednesday.

"When you enter a new love, you want to show where you went to school," Cage said. "'This is my old neighborhood, I grew up in that house.'"

"New Orleans is like the other city I grew up in, so it was meaningful for me to show her New Orleans," he continued.

According to Atlas Obscura, the "National Treasure" star bought two burial plots in a famous New Orleans graveyard in 2010 and used one to erect the large pyramid tomb, inscribed with the Latin phrase "omnia ab uno" (meaning "everything from one"). The tomb is typically counted among Cage's famously elaborate (and eccentric) purchases, which also include two European castles, his own private island, and a dinosaur skull.

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Shibata, who reportedly met Cage in Japan sometime in 2019 or early 2020, also took the actor to places that meant a lot to her (like the shrines in Kyoto), according to Cage.

Cage and Shibata. Michael Kovac/Getty Images

Cage, who also talked to GQ about his "wonderful" new pet crow, told Entertainment Tonight on Wednesday that he knew his relationship with Shibata "could work" after finding out that she had pet flying squirrels.

Cage told ET's Lauren Zima: "[Shibata] likes animals, too, so I asked her, 'Do you have any pets?' And she said, 'Yes, I have flying squirrels.' She had two sugar gliders... I thought, 'That's it. This could work out.''"

Shibata and Cage spent most of the coronavirus pandemic apart, with Cage in New York and Shibata in Japan. The couple got married in Las Vegas on February 16 after getting engaged over FaceTime.

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