Nicolas Cage, the renowned actor, has recently revealed that he legally changed his name to Nicolas Cage last year. This decision was made to distance himself from the famous Coppola family, of which he is a part, and to establish his own identity in the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n
Cage, who is 62 years old, has been using the name Nicolas Cage professionally for decades. However, he decided to make the change to avoid being the \u201cclown cousin\u201d of Hollywood royalty. \u201cI am Nick Cage. I changed my name legally last year,\u201d he told Variety. \u201cI\u2019m Nick Cage in life, and I\u2019m Nick Cage on camera. \u2018Tis 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
Cage is the son of academic and author August Coppola and the nephew of legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire. His cousins include filmmaker Sofia Coppola and actor Jason Schwartzman. The Coppola family has a rich history in the entertainment industry, with eight Oscars, 10 Golden Globes, two BAFTA Awards, a Grammy, and two Palme d\u2019Or honors from the Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n
Cage said he chose \u201cCage\u201d partly because of the Marvel Comics character Luke Cage, while also drawing inspiration from avant-garde composer John Cage. \u201c\u2018Cage\u2019 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 he said.<\/p>\n
Cage also admitted he wanted a name that felt \u201cshort and sweet\u201d like James Dean. \u201cI thought, well, I\u2019ll keep the name \u2018Nicolas\u2019 because my father named me Nicolas \u2014 with French spelling, which has always frustrated me, because everyone adds an \u2018h,\u2019\u201d Cage said. He explained that he wanted to honor his father\u2019s choice while also creating a name that felt more personal and unique to him.<\/p>\n
A: Nicolas Cage changed his name to distance himself from the famous Coppola family and to establish his own identity in the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n
A: Nicolas Cage is the son of academic and author August Coppola and the nephew of legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire. His cousins include filmmaker Sofia Coppola and actor Jason Schwartzman.<\/p>\n
A: Nicolas Cage chose the name Cage partly because of the Marvel Comics character Luke Cage and also drew inspiration from avant-garde composer John Cage. He also wanted a name that felt \u201cshort and sweet\u201d like James Dean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicolas Cage, the renowned actor, has recently revealed that he legally changed his name to Nicolas Cage last year. This decision was made to distance himself from the famous Coppola family, of which he is a part, and to establish his own identity in the entertainment industry. Why the Name Change?…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}