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Nicolas Cage Nicolas Cage has revealed that he has legally changed his name to Nicolas Cage, which was previously only his stage moniker. The Oscar winner shared the news in an interview with Variety posted on Wednesday. Variety’s reporter asked Nick – who was born Nicolas Kim Coppola – about one of his inspirations being the comic book superhero Luke Cage . “Is it strange to still be known as Nicolas Cage?” she asked. “No. I am Nick Cage,” he then responded. “I changed my name legally last year.” He added: “I’m Nick Cage in life, and I’m Nick Cage on camera. ’Tis better to be the patriarch of my own little family than the clown cousin on the margins of someone else’s, so I decided I’m going to bring it on and be ‘Cage’.” The Leaving Las Vegas actor – whose uncle is The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola and aunt is Rocky star Talia Shire – explained: “Cage is a name that I liked coming across in the comics.” “I just thought he had a cool name,” he continued. “And I grew up in a very avant-garde, artsy family and there was talk about John Cage and the experimental compositions that he did.” He added: “I was looking for something like ‘James Dean’, I was looking for something short and sweet. I thought, well, I’ll keep the name Nicolas because my father [the late professor August Coppola] named me Nicolas – with French spelling, which has always frustrated me, because everyone adds an ‘h’. I don’t know why he gave me the French spelling! But he did.” The actor then made it clear that he can still be called Nicolas or Nick because “people know me as both”. The newly-legally-certified Nicolas Cage currently stars in Spider-Noir on Amazon Prime. MORE CELEBRITY NEWS: Helen Mirren Voices 'Love' For Tom Hardy Amid Rumoured MobLand Drama Tina Fey Breaks Silence On Timothée Chalamet 'Manspreading' Viral Discourse Olivia Rodrigo Slams 'Disturbing' Controversy Over Her Babydoll Dresses
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