Born Nicolas Kim Coppola, the actor known Nicolas Cage famously attended his earliest auditions under that pseudonym, telling Vanity Fair “I wanted to create a kind of wild and artistic and bizarre image,” one separate from his internationally famous uncle, director Francis Ford Coppola. The Oscar-winning actor, who is currently starring in Amazon Prime series Spider Noir, finally made that name change official last year, the 62-year-old said in a new interview, after a long life with a double identity. Speaking with Variety, the newly-minted official Cage said “I am Nick Cage. I changed my name legally last year. I’m Nick Cage in life, and I’m Nick Cage on camera.” “‘Tis better to be the patriarch of my own little family than the clown cousin on the margins of someone else’s,” the self-aware star said. “So I decided I’m going to bring it on and be ‘Cage.’” Though he’s gone by the “Cage” last name since his role as Randy in 1983’s Valley Girl, the actor was still eager to explain how he chose his …