Nicolas Cage reveals secret to reaching peak surf rage!

"Word to your moms, I came to drop bombs."

There comes a time in every surfer’s life, multiple hundreds of times in fact, when he or she is out in the lineup, minding business, having a little fun, paddling for a wave when boom… an egregious drop in occurs. Now, typically the bile flows freely, loud shouts unleashed, insults thrown. Maybe the offending barn is pointed to the beach. Maybe followed around for the rest of the session, holes bored into back of head with laser stares.

But every once in a while, the aforementioned scenario plays out except the offended surfer just can’t muster any ire. The egregious drop in happens and she or he merely shrugs, kicks out and doesn’t feel… anything.

It is in these times when supplements must be utilized to get it back up. But what? How? Well, two-time Academy Award winning actor Nicolas Cage has just shared the secret. He plays, as you certainly know by now, The Surfer in the acclaimed new Lorcan Finnegan picture by the same name. In it, he is pushed to the brink by crusty locals and must reach a heretofore unheard of level of surf rage in order to survive.

The trick?

“I was listening to ‘Jump Around’ by House Of Pain,” Cage told film industry resource Empire. “For some reason, that song would come out when I was in my state of madness, when I was losing it at [the surfers] when they were torturing my character. It was just in my head. I started mocking them back and I started singing it at them: ‘Are you gonna jump around? Jump around! Jump around!’ And then they started listening to it and then we were all singing it.”

Who knew?