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The Family Man star, who once bought a plane seat for his child’s imaginary friend, is currently enduring a “hostile environment” allegedly created by his son’s ex-wife, preventing him from seeing his four-year-old twin granddaughters.
“People would not stop saying things like, ‘I love the smell of Nicolas in the morning,’ because of Apocalypse Now…and it made it hard to work and I said, ‘I don’t need this,’ and changed it to Cage,” he explains, recalling his decision to drop the surname that linked him to his famous relative, Francis Ford Coppola.
Elaborating on why he chose “Cage,” he adds, “It’s a combination of Luke Cage from Marvel comics, a character I admired, also known as Power Man, and John Cage, the avant-garde composer.
The anonymity gave him a sense of liberation
“Wow, I really can do this. And I felt liberated by that experience,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter. “You can see it in Valley Girl that I’m free.
Whereas in Fast Times, or even Rumble Fish, I felt somewhat restrained,” he notes, referring to his role in 1983’s Rumble Fish, directed by his uncle.
Over the years, Cage worked non-stop in numerous films, earning a reputation as one of Hollywood’s most sought-after actors.
In 1988, he received Golden Globe nominations for Moonstruck alongside Cher and Honeymoon in Vegas with Sarah Jessica Parker.
He also had a son Weston Coppola Cage, in December 1990. Weston even portrayed a younger version of Cage in the 2014 film Rage.
Shares a son, Kal-El (Superman’s birth name), born in 2005 with his third wife Alice Kim. Also a daughter, August Francesca, born in 2022 with his fifth wife, Riko Shibata.
“There’s no version of Nick Cage in reality that doesn’t want to spend time with his children…There’s no version of Nick Cage that didn’t put family first over career,” says the Raising Arizona star.
He adds, “I turned down Lord of the Rings and The Matrix because I didn’t want to spend three years in New Zealand or Australia. I needed to be home with my son Weston, that’s a fact.”
To this day, the Adaptation actor shares a strong bond with his children and two grandchildren, Lucian (born 2014) and Sorin (2016), whom Weston shares with his second wife.
“He can do things I dream about doing…compose music, sing, act, sculpt, and cook, and now he’s a loving father,” Cage says of Weston, who previously led two heavy metal bands. “Seeing my son with my grandson brings a rare sense of blissful fulfillment.”
Now 33, Weston, known for D-Day, has been married three times and also shares twin daughters, Cyress and Venice, born in 2020 with his third ex-wife, Hila Arounian.
However, the twins have never met any of their famous Hollywood relatives.
After a contentious divorce in 2021, TMZ reports Hila was granted “sole legal and physical custody of their twin daughters…with Weston receiving no visitation rights.”
Describing the distressing situation, Weston’s mother Christina spoke to The U.S. Sun. Christina says, “Not meeting the girls is painful, hurtful, and shocking.”
Hila does not mention restricting family visitation with the twins. Claiming Weston’s “behavior became a physical threat to our daughters and me, as well as our emotional well-being.”
Christina affirms that the Cage/Coppola family remains resolute: “In these trying times, our family’s resilience is tested. But we remain committed to overcoming these challenges and restoring our family’s harmony.”
