Nicolas Cage: You may have missed this movie, but he already played a very amazing vampire before Dracula

Nicolas Cage in Dracula is obvious to viewers who know his taste for flamboyant characters and one of the roles the actor dreamed of playing alongside Superman and Captain Nemo. However, Renfield is released this Wednesday the 31st in our cinemas, although it is not the first feature film in which he plays the role of a vampire.

Set at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, two years before it hit French cinemas, Embrasse-moi vampire casts Nicolas Cage as a literary agent who, after biting a young woman with long teeth, thinks he’s turning himself. in the bloodsucker. Definitely not the most amazing title in the actor’s career, which still keeps him a special memory.

And for good reason: In one scene, her character picks up a live cockroach and eats it. Which was actually done by the main stakeholder. Twice, as he recently admitted in an interview, he explained that director Robert Biermann had played a prank on him, and he would never do it again.

After that, it would be necessary to wait almost thirty-five years for Nicolas Cage to play vampires again, even if the role of Dracula was returned to him earlier. In the early 90s, when his uncle Francis Ford Coppola was preparing a memorable adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel.

The long list of potential actors for the lead role did indeed include his nephew, as well as Alec Baldwin, Keanu Reeves, Hugh Grant or even Alan Rickman.

So many actors that will finally see Gary Oldman take on the character for a memorable interpretation. For Nicolas Cage, it was just a postponement by detouring as a producer, filming Nosferatu, which he said in Shadow of the Vampire.

And as chance would have it, the Nosferatu aura also hung over Renfield, as Nicolas Hoult, Nicolas Cage’s co-star in Chris McKay’s film, starred in Robert Eggers’ ( The Northman ) remake, which just wrapped. He will portray Thomas Hutter in the upcoming 2024 feature film, with Bill Skarsgård portraying the vampire.