Nicolas Cage says he almost died by surfing the set of The Surfer

Nicolas Cage revealed that he could have died by practicing surfing for the film “The Surfer”, in theaters in the United States since Friday May 2, whose release date in France is still unknown.

Very large fright. Everyone is not given to master surfing. Nicolas Cage experienced it, revealing to Entertainment Weekly that she had almost died during training for the feature film “The Surfer”.

The 61 -year -old actor, who camps on the screen a man returning to his childhood beach in Australia to surf with his son, returned to his experience during the shooting. And obviously, the actor has an icing memory of his training sessions, disturbed by difficult weather conditions, but especially by sharks.

“We have had problems with the weather and, believe it or not, reports on sharks and other problems. I surfed, but every time I tried to do it, I was reduced to crumbs, “said the actor. He returned to his private lessons, detailing what he had experienced under the gaze of the team. “I surfed in Sunset Beach. When I was trying to learn, my teacher gave me shortboard. I said, “Look, I want a longboard.”, “Said Nicolas Cage. But even with a longboard, the actor was scared.

Stuck in the current

“I was struck and I was literally stuck in the current,” he continued noting that his board had been baptized “tombstone”, (tombstone editor’s note), because she pointed upwards. “I climbed on the leash while I was making perilous jumps, and I could have died,” he added.

Presented at the Cannes Film Festival last year in midnight session, the feature film “The surfer” by Lorcan Finnegan still has no release date in France. Unveiled this Friday, May 2 in the United States, the film features a father and his son who came to surf together in the paternal city of the paternal but whose getaway turns to the nightmare when a gang of surfers in the area prohibits them access to the ocean and threats. Faced with humiliations, the father will have to fight to win back his territory and the esteem of his son. A struggle that will lead him to the heart of madness, notes the pitch.