Nicolas Cage regrets eating live cockroaches for movie: “I’m traumatised”
nme.comVampire’s Kiss, telling Yahoo Entertainment that he’ll “never do that again”.Vampire’s Kiss stars Cage as publishing executive Peter Loew, who thinks he’s turning into a vampire.
In the scene in question, Loew picks up a cockroach that is scuttling across the cooker in his apartment and then eats it whole for breakfast.
The film’s script originally called for Cage to swallow a raw egg instead, but Cage insisted it be a cockroach.“I saw it as a business decision because when people see the cockroach go in my mouth… [they] really react,” he said during the film’s DVD commentary track.In another recent interview with Mediacorp, Cage reflected further on his bug-eating days. “I think the one experience I had in Vampire’s Kiss was enough,” he said. “Every time I think about it I’m sometimes traumatised by it and I don’t ever want to do it again or anything like it again.”Cage is currently starring in Renfield, a spin-off comedy horror about Dracula’s long-suffering assistant R.
M. Renfield, played by Nicholas Hoult. For this film, it was Hoult who had to eat the cockroaches, not Cage.“The cockroaches I got to eat in this were caramel,” Hoult told Yahoo. “I also had crickets that were actually quite yummy; they were salt and vinegar-flavoured or barbecue smoky-flavoured.”“[Nicholas] ate a potato bug, so he took it to another level,” Cage added.
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