9 Times Method Actors Actually Forgot Who They Really Were

2. Nicolas Cage Believed He Was Ghost Rider

Can it really be a surprise that, of all actors, Nicolas Cage is one of those most ready to lose himself and forget he's not really the character he's playing? Of course not - Cage is a man who once compared his style to jazz, said he didn't like the term "acting" and invented his own technique called Nouveau Shamanism.

It can't have been easy, though, for Cage to disappear into the role of the Ghost Rider, Marvel's demonic superhero who on occasion sets ablaze and becomes a skeletal crimefighter - but he did manage it. Cage admitted that he took a strange approach to playing Johnny Blaze's alter ego: on-set, he sewed ancient Egyptian relics into his jacket, donned a voodoo mask and wore black contact lenses so his eyes looked like a shark's.

The "fear" in the eyes of the Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance crew only inspired Cage - in his own words: "I believed I was the Ghost Rider". Fascinating.