Nick Cave and Nicolas Cage are two of probably the most unmistakeable personalities of their fields. One is a creative mastermind with hanging vampiric appears who has used his intimate appreciation of avant-garde composers like Karlheinz Stockhausen to raise a well-liked artwork kind to the realm of greatness—and the opposite fronts a band referred to as the Unhealthy Seeds. Apparently, although, past the echo chambers of music blogs and Wicker Man memes, a wider world exists the place individuals wrestle to inform them aside. Cave has written previously about such instances of mistaken id, and, final week, Cage informed The Guardian, “I don’t assume there’s a day that goes by the place I’m not mistaken for Nick Cave.” In response, Cave shared a brand new anecdote in his newest dispatch of The Crimson Hand Recordsdata regarding the “persistent and considerably perplexing confusion surrounding our names.”
Cave relays a narrative from a São Paulo bar, the place he acquired chatting to a younger, wallowing Brazilian man who launched himself as Diego. When he requested for Cave’s identify, the bartender leaned over and informed him, “Dude, you’re speaking to fucking Nick Cave!” Diego “grew to become super-animated,” says Cave, “leaping round on his stool, saying that he cherished me, that he was my best fan, and so forth and so forth.” After some hours of extra cheerful chatter, Cave remembers, Diego burst into tears and admitted his spouse had kicked me out. She hated him, he mentioned—“however she fucking loves you.” Cave replied, “Actually?” and acquired the inevitable information. “Yeah, Peggy Sue Obtained Married is her favorite movie,” Diego mentioned. “She’s watched it like 100 occasions.”
Such was the younger man’s “pitiful combination of tragedy and marvel” that Cave didn’t have the guts to inform him he had made a mistake. Continues Cave within the publication, “He requested me about my appearing profession. I mentioned one thing like, ‘I’m simply an strange particular person such as you. Hollywood is just not all it’s cracked as much as be. It may be a merciless place. It will get lonely generally,’ and so forth. After some time, I started to heat to my theme. I informed him that making Elevating Arizona was probably the most extraordinary expertise and a highpoint in my profession, that John Goodman was a captivating and sophisticated character, and the way it was an actual privilege to work with the Coen brothers and that they have been ‘masters of their craft’ and all this bullshit. Finally, Diego determined he ought to return house and inform his spouse, Ana, that he’d met her favorite actor, and that Nick Cave says he’s not silly, and that he’s a superb man.”
Cave wriggled out of that by saying he needed to be on set early. As an alternative, he wrote Diego a observe: “Pricey Ana, Diego is just not silly. He’s a superb man. Love, Nic Cage.”
Cave concludes, “Diego hugged and kissed me and stumbled out of the door, waving the observe in his hand.… Anyway, these confusions between me and Mr. Cage occur pretty usually. However I don’t thoughts. I’m a fan. Have you ever guys seen Mandy? My God. What a movie.” Learn the total account within the Crimson Hand Recordsdata archive.
