Nicholas Cage gets mistaken for Nick Cave everyday
Hollywood star Nicholas Cage has revealed that members of the public get him mixed up with Nick Cave on a daily basis.
Despite their vast differences, most notably, Cage is an American, and Cave is from Australia. While one is an actor and the other is a musician, they are regularly mistaken due to the similarities in their names, which differ by only one letter.
In a new interview with The Guardian, Cage was asked by a reader: “What is your own psychedelic take on this fabled meeting of minds? And have you, like Mr Cave, ever been mistaken for your almost-namesake?”
In response, Cage admitted that it has happened far too many times to recollect, sharing, “I don’t think there’s a day that goes by where I’m not mistaken for Nick Cave. People also say: ‘Hey, Nick, you were great in The Hunger, ‘which is this great David Bowie movie [in which Cage doesn’t feature]. I do remember that Cave was very nice.”
Cage then revealed that he has met his namesake on one occasion, which is a very unlikely setting, recalling, “We were at an animal sanctuary, I believe – I think Sealy Animal Hospital in Texas – and he was terrific. I said hello and wanted to shake his hand. I said: ‘Only one letter separates us – G. Nick Cave, Nick Cage’.”
Cave has equally been mixed up with Nicolas Cage regularly since they’ve both been in the spotlight. In his Red Hand Files newsletter in 2022, Cave wrote: “People mix me up with Nicolas Cage all the time. Like, I’ll be going through customs and the customs officer will look at my passport and say, ‘Happy to have you with us, Mr Cave. Loved you in Face/Off’. Or whatever.”
While he admitted that “sometimes it can be a bit of a pain in the neck,” Cave acknowledged that “you get used to it,” and it doesn’t particularly irk him anymore.
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