Nicolas Cage as Count Dracula in the new horror comedy, Renfield. (Photo: Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection)
For Nicolas Cage, at least, vampire movies and eating bugs go together like KFC and champagne. The former big screen superhero and noted Star Trek fan plays Count Dracula himself in the new horror comedy Renfield, co-starring Nicholas Hoult as the famous vampire’s long-suffering servant, R.M. Renfield, who chomps on insects when in need of a vampish power boost.
Thirty-five years ago, Cage was the one who stuffed a bug — a live cockroach no less — into his mouth during the making of the cult 1988 comedy, Vampire’s Kiss. It’s a Method moment he has no plans of reliving. “I’ll never do that again,” the actor tells Yahoo Entertainment now. “I’m sorry I did it at all.”
Watch our bug free interview with Nicolas Cage and Nicholas Hoult on YouTube
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