\u201cIs it strange to still be known as Nicolas Cage?\u201d the reporter asked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cNo. I am<\/em> Nick Cage,\u201d he replied. \u201cI changed my name legally last year. I\u2019m Nick Cage in life, and I\u2019m Nick Cage on camera. \u2019Tis better to be the patriarch of my own little family than the clown cousin on the margins of someone else\u2019s, so I decided I\u2019m going to bring it on and be \u2018Cage.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
The \u201cLeaving Las Vegas\u201d Oscar winner \u2015 whose uncle is \u201cThe Godfather\u201d director Francis Ford Coppola and aunt is \u201cRocky\u201d star Talia Shire \u2015 explained his now-real name. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cCage is a name that I liked coming across in the comics \u2014 I just thought he had a cool name \u2014 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,\u201d the \u201cSurfer\u201d actor continued. \u201cI was looking for something like \u2018James Dean\u2019; I was looking for something short and sweet. I thought, well, I\u2019ll keep the name Nicolas because my father [the late professor August Coppola] named me Nicolas \u2014 with French spelling, which has always frustrated me, because everyone adds an \u2018h.\u2019 I don\u2019t know why he gave me the French spelling! But he did.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The actor then made it clear that he can still be called Nicolas or Nick because \u201cpeople know me as both.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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