Nicolas Cage encouraged Johnny Depp to become an actor over a game of Monopoly.
The 'Mandy' actor urged his old friend to think about a career in movies and helped him get an agent and an audition at a time when the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' star was focused on becoming a musician.
He told the New York Times magazine: "The true story is that we were already friends. I was living in an old building in Hollywood called the Fontenoy, and I think I ultimately rented the apartment to Johnny, and he started living there.
"He was at the point in his career where he was selling pens or something to get by.
"He would take my money and buy cocktails but wouldn't tell me about it. He admitted it later.
"But anyway, we were good friends, and we would play Monopoly, and he was winning a game, and I was watching him and I said, 'Why don't you just try acting?' He wanted to be a musician at the time, and he told me, 'No, I can't act.' I said, 'I think you can act.' So I sent him to meet with my agent.
"She sent him out on his first audition, which was 'A Nightmare on Elm Street.' He got the part that day. Overnight sensations don't happen. But it happened with him."