Nicolas Cage stayed in character as Dracula throughout ‘Renfield’ filming
nme.comNicolas Cage became Dracula while filming Renfield – even when the camera’s were turned off.The film’s director Chris McKay said that the Mandy actor was “living” in character between takes while shooting the upcoming horror comedy.
In fact, Cage’s method acting approach to the character was so extreme that McKay said it was like talking to the vampire himself.Speaking to Insider, McKay said: “Whatever scene we did, he would still be 100% living in that attitude after we stopped shooting.
So if he’s a little frosty in the scene he’s going to have a little bit of that between takes, but still up for whatever we were doing.”Cage is just one of a number of box office giants to use the method acting approach, with Daniel Day-Lewis and Johnny Depp amongst other notable current method actors.
Speaking of his experience with the Stanislavski-derived acting technique, Mckay said Cage wouldn’t even drop his facade during “real conversations” between them.The Lego Batman Movie director explained that if he and Cage needed to have a talk about the film it would be McKay and Dracula speaking.
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