Nicolas Cage Explains Colourful Reason Behind His Recent Name Change
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.”
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