We spoke w/ NicolasCage & NicholasHoult for RenfieldMovie. They talked about recreating the original Dracula, filming with buckets of practical blood, and bodysurfing... on bodies. We also talked about Robert Eggers' Nosferatu.
Bram Stoker’s iconic vampire, Count Dracula, has been reimagined in countless ways over the years, but never quite like director Chris McKay’s retelling in Renfield. For the first time in his career, Nicolas Cage is portraying Dracula, an enigmatic figure in pop culture, and is reuniting with former The Weather Man co-star, Nicholas Hoult, who plays the lead as the titular devoted servant to the Lord of Death, Renfield, in a performance Cage describes as “Chaplin-esque.
NICOLAS CAGE: Oh, well, I have to be careful what I say. In fact, they even said to me the less I know the better, so you can read between those lines. HOULT: Oh no, you know what we should be saying? The Weather Man, the one that we did. I got to play Nic’s son when I was 14, and that, I think, is a brilliant movie. I think it really stands up, and Gore [Verbinski] did wonderful work, and Steve [Conrad], the writer, was really funny and dark and twisted, and Nic’s performance is hilarious.CAGE: Sure, I agree with that.
CAGE: Well yeah, I mean, we have these situations sometimes, and not talking about anybody specifically, but it happens in families. You get that sometimes in families. Then it was a lot of drilling and rehearsals to make sure that in those moments, everyone was dialed in to do it correctly on the take because otherwise, it'd be a big clean up, and a reset, and there goes your schedule for the day.
CAGE: Some of it is up to what happens empathically in the imagination. I leave myself open to inspirations that kind of pop in and go, ‘Hello!’ and then they come out. Much of it was something that I had already developed on Vampire's Kiss, meaning my father's voice, August Coppola. I think that was the main influence. The look [was] more Christopher Lee with a little Anne Bancroft from Mrs. Robinson thrown in. I thought those were all good models for the character.
I read that you saw Nosferatu when you were five years old and it had an impact on you, and I believe you might be doing Nosferatu with Robert [Eggers], unless I'm wrong about that?Exactly. So I wanted to know what that was like seeing that film at a young age, and what can you tease about your new version of Nosferatu?
Robert's talked to me about the film, but the thing that I love about Robert is the way that he tries to be as authentic to the time period as possible, whether that be using the film equipment of the era or whatever he needs to do to create it. Are you guys using any sort of vintage equipment?
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