- After his film career faded, he became a farmer.
- Demanded to be paid paid 800,000 South African rand in advance before repeating his role in The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989). He insisted the money was needed for a cinder-block house with electricity and a water pump for him, his three wives, and their children.
- At first not knowing the value of paper money, N!xau let his first wages, $300, blow away. However, by the time of The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989) he had learned the value of money, demanding several hundred thousand dollars before agreeing to be recast in the film.
- When he was discovered by Jamie Uys, the South African director of the film The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980), he had only had minimal exposure to modern life. He had only seen three white people in his life before being cast and had never seen a settlement larger than the houses of the San people.
- His name is a usual transliteration of his original language, Ungwatsi, which uses clicking sounds that have no equivalent letter in the Roman alphabet.
- Appeared in five of six of "The Gods Must Be Crazy" films. He was said to do another film in Japan, but there is no evidence that this film was ever made.
- Member of the San, who are one of the indigenous groups of people of South Africa and Namibia.
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