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Named himself after Luke Cage


Nick, in an effort to make it on his own merits, changed his surname from Coppola to Cage. This is fairly common knowledge.

I got to thinking the other day, why Cage? He must have chosen it for a reason. The internet had the answer readily available.

Apparently, he really liked comic book hero Luke Cage, and decided to name himself after him. I thought that was interesting, and maybe not everybody knows it.

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power move

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Didn't know his uncle is Francis Ford Coppola. That makes Sofia his cousin, who didn't change her name.

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And Jason Schwartzman is also his cousin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppola_family_tree

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He loves comics. He named his son Kal-El.

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