We spoke w/ Nicolas Cage about playing Dracula in RenfieldMovie and what his favorite vampire movie is.
Nicolas Cage makes perfect sense as Dracula. It's almost shocking he's never played the most vampire in the world, considering not only his desire to play the role for years, but also his ability to go all-out in roles that seems like just the right fit for this iconic character.
The more I thought about the Dracula character, the more I saw him as Love and Exile, a kind of romantic addict who is symbolic of– you can supplant any addiction, whether it's alcohol or heroin or sex, or whatever, and turn that bloodlust. And he wants the blood, but this is all coming from a place of loneliness and unrequited love for hundreds of years, and he's constantly getting his heart broken. So this is more the pathos of Dracula from what I’ve found in my analysis of his psyche.
CAGE: Well, I think that whenever– “Whenever?” I mean, that sounds ridiculous. When do you get a phone call from Universal saying, “We want you to play Dracula?” That's never gonna happen again. It's like every, maybe, 100 years? This character is genuinely supernatural, meaning that he's made a deal with a supernatural force, and he's capable of very expressionistic behavior and moves because of that contract, and that also works. I'm always looking for context that allows me to become more surreal or abstract with film performance when it makes sense. In Vampire’s Kiss it makes sense because of the mental illness, Dracula makes sense because of the supernatural horror element.
CAGE: New Orleans, you know, there is an X factor in New Orleans, and it's something that is hard to articulate, but it's a feeling you get. I had a love-hate relationship with the city, and I think people understand what I mean. And, you know, it's not like anywhere else in the world, and there is a kind of supernatural feeling in the air. So it is a kind of perfect location to make a movie that deals with some supernatural themes, even though this is a comedy.
So, if you could pick any of your previous characters to be your personal familiar, who would you choose?
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