COLOGNE, GERMANY - JUNE 05: Musician and author Nick Cave gestures during lit.COLOGNE Spezial: Nick Cave & Seán O'Hagan: „Faith, Hope and Carnage" at Theater am Tanzbrunnen on June 05, 2023 in Cologne, Germany. Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave's inner life. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)
Cinematic icon Nicolas Cage and musical icon Nick Cave don’t look much like each other, and they have very, very different voices. But they’ve got very similar names, and they’re both intense, dark-haired white guys in their sixties, so people apparently get them constantly confused with one another. Last week, Nic Cage claimed that people mistake him for Nick Cave all the damn time in a Guardian interview. As in: “I don’t think there’s a day that goes by where I’m not mistaken for Nick Cave.” Apparently, Cave has faced some of the same situations, and he’s got a funny story about one of them.
