While she didn’t agree to marry Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette did reward his dedication to the scavenger hunt by agreeing to accompany him on a trip to Cuba. However, it would be their first and last vacation. According to Paper, there was an issue with their tickets and Cage didn’t take the news in stride. Rather, he reportedly had a very public and very extreme “meltdown” and Arquette quickly called it quits. Cage later admitted to Rolling Stone, per Paper, that he wreaked havoc on his own relationships. “Back then, I was living out my fantasies of what I thought an exciting man should be,” he shared. “I wanted to be unpredictable and frightening, and I guess I was. I mean, Patricia says that at the time I was pure testosterone.” As for Arquette, she told Rolling Stone that she was put off by both the incident and the fact that “his success was scary to me — I couldn’t touch him.”
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It wasn’t until 1995, eight years after their first encounter, that the pair rekindled their romance. Almost unbelievably, they bumped into each other at Canter’s Deli again and this time, she made the first move. As Arquette told the New York Times, per InStyle, “I needed to be reassured that the depth of his love would be as brave as before,” and she was. So much so that she decided to propose.
