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Why did Francis Ford Coppola's nephew drop his last name?

Actor Nicolas Cage - born Nicolas Coppola, nephew of the famous director Francis Ford Coppola. At the very beginning of his career, he took a pseudonym for himself in order to distance himself from his uncle and avoid talk that he got the roles thanks to protectionism, not talent. Of the more than 70 pictures in Cage's filmography, only three were directed by Coppola.

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