Nicolas Cage said he turned $200 into $20,000 at a roulette table in 30 minutes, then handed the entire amount to an orphanage the next day and never gambled again.
Jimmy Kimmel: Are you a gambler?
Nicolas Cage: No.
Jimmy Kimmel: I heard a story about you, tell me if this is true. I want to know— that you had two hundred dollars—
Nicolas Cage: Yes.
Jimmy Kimmel: You played roulette, you turned it into like two hundred thousand dollars?
Nicolas Cage: No no no no, nothing that extraordinary. Twenty thousand.
Jimmy Kimmel: Twenty thousand dollars. Okay.
Nicolas Cage: Yeah but I did it in about a half hour, and I was in the Bahamas.
Jimmy Kimmel: Okay
Nicolas Cage: And it was one of those nights — do you ever have one of those nights where you feel like the mojo is with you, and you knew you could do nothing wrong, everything was going to go your way?
Jimmy Kimmel: I've never had that. I swear to God.
Nicolas Cage: You will. It was one of those nights. My game was roulette, and it was about, I would say, about 20 years ago. And I went into, what's that big hotel in the Bahamas, the Atlantis?
Jimmy Kimmel: Oh yeah, the Atlantis.
Nicolas Cage: Yeah, yeah. And I went in, I went to the roulette table, and I just knew I had it. And every number I chose and I often would choose the same number, it kept winning. And then even the woman that was spinning the ball said, "Nothing sweeter than a repeater." And I kept doing it, and I said, this is magic. I did it, you know, it happened. And so the next day I said, you know, this is so special, I'm gonna go. I found an orphanage. I lived across Nassau Harbor, and I went, I found an orphanage. And I met all the children, and I said to the headmistress, this is for you. Twenty thousand dollars, cash in her hand. And I never gambled again, because it would ruin the magic of that night. Never gamble again. So... I- uh, well, I ended it on a win.
Jimmy Kimmel: That's incredible. Unfortunately, those kids went and gambled it all away.
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Matt Damon says he realized how massive The Odyssey was when a 1,200 person battle with a man on fire and a collapsing building turned out to be a flashback
“Because Chris does everything in camera, if you see a thousand people in a battle, there are a thousand people there. There’s no CGI”
“There’s literally 1,200 people. A guy runs by me, he’s on fire. Hoyt is behind me with the IMAX handheld on his shoulder, and a building is on fire, it comes crashing down”
“We hear ‘cut,’ everything stops, and Hoyt puts the camera down, turns to me and goes, ‘You know, this is a flashback.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, this is a big movie if this is a flashback’”
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Tata Brown on Diego Maradona the day before the match against England where he produced the hand of God and the goal of the century .
It’s not a coincidence that Messi has invoked same spirit here . Starting into nothingness and detached . We are likely going to see the most devastating Messi version tonight !