Owning a two-headed snake was too much even for Nicolas Cage. In a new GQ profile, the actor chatted about his career, embracing being a meme, and … dropping tens of thousands of dollars on a two-headed snake. “I was having dreams about two-headed eagles,” Cage said. “And then the next day, somebody calls me and says, ‘Oh, I have a two-headed snake you might be interested in buying.’ And I’m dreaming about two-headed eagles. And it costs like 80 grand. I said, ‘I’ll do it. Here, I’ll take it.'” But Cage got more than he bargained for and eventually had to give the snake to a zoo, as needing to “put a spatula between the two heads” to give “them two different mice and let them eat separately” became “too much for me to handle.” The rest of the interview includes Cage discussing becoming a living meme, partially due to insane anecdotes like this. But he said he wanted to refute the “misconception that I’m crazy.”