Tipsy Nic before the bust
OOPS: Nicolas Cage was arrested early Saturday morning. (EPA)
Newly revealed video images show a boozy Nicolas Cage stumbling into a New Orleans tattoo parlor in a wobbly preview of the Big Easy bender that ended with him in jail.
Cage — holding a drink in his left hand — was walking while propped up by two pals, before he tripped into the ink parlor late Friday night, the security footage obtained by TMZ.com shows.
The actor, who won an Oscar as a drunk in 1995’s “Leaving Las Vegas,” then launched into animated talks with people inside. There was no sound on the video.
A young, dark-haired woman in a short skirt — Cage’s wife, Alice Kim — also appeared to be having a spirited chat with the actor. Cage was reportedly telling people at the tattoo shop that he didn’t know where his home was.
Then he seemed to take his wife’s advice and they left after three minutes.
He was later arrested on a French Quarter residential street during a loud argument with Kim, with Cage allegedly insisting they had reached their home in the 600 block of Dumaine Street.
The intoxicated actor reportedly grabbed his wife’s arm and jerked her toward a house he believed was theirs.
