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6 Insane True Stories Behind The Stage Names of Celebrities

June 28, 2013, 10:00 pm

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Maxwell Yezpitelok examines the stories behind the stage names of 6 well known celebrities.

As a teenager, Nicolas Coppola changed his name to stop other actors from teasing him. No, they didn’t tease him because his last name was Italian, or because it sounded like “copulation.” Some people claimed he only had an acting career because he was related to Francis Ford Coppola. Considering that Nicolas says he would have joined the Merchant Marines if he hadn’t been cast in his uncle’s film Rumble Fish, perhaps those people weren’t completely wrong. Or even a little wrong.

Nicolas, of course, looks nothing like a sailor. He looks like a horse. He also looks like a giant nerd, and in fact, he is such a huge nerd that he borrowed his new name from an obscure Marvel Comics character he liked:

Since “Nick Powerman” was clearly more awesome than he could handle, he had to settle for “Nicolas Cage.” Cage would go on to play a few characters published by Marvel Comics (in Ghost Rider and Kick-Ass), but oddly enough nobody has cast him as Luke Cage yet.

Wait, it Gets Weirder:

In the early 90s two game designers were working on a fighting game centered around Jean-Claude Van Damme. When the project fell through, they reworked the concept into what became known as Mortal Kombat. They kept the Van Damme character (and some of his signature moves, like doing a split on the floor and punching the other guy’s balls), but obviously they had to change his name. So they called him Johnny Cage.

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