Miming the Cage

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In an interview with Parade, Nicolas Cage reveals a stalker story that I hadn't heard before.  He claims that while he was shooting Bringing Out the Dead he was stalked by a mime.  He says that he has no idea how the mime got past security, but would appear on set and start doing strange things.  IMDB tells me that movie was about a burned-out paramedic who saw ghosts.  So I put two and two together and my guess is that what Cage saw was an extra.  In costume.  If there is any chance it really was a random mime that nobody else seemed to notice or stop from bursting onto the set, I still don't know what the big deal is.  How is a mime going to hurt you?  He'd have to find his way out of that damn box first.