Nicolas Cage, 59, revealed he ate live cockroaches while filming a scene for his 1988 cult movie ‘Vampire’s Kiss‘ – when he and his Renfield costar Nicholas Hoult spoke with Yahoo! Entertainment about their new vampire horror-comedy.
‘Oh yeah, I ate it twice, because the director did it just to prank me,’ Cage told 33-year-old Hoult about the experience, after he was asked whether he gave his costar advice on eating bugs in Renfield.
‘I’m not one to give advice, but [Hoult] ate a potato bug so he took it to another level,’ he said, to which Hoult replied: ‘The cockroach is worse than a potato bug I think… the cockroaches I got to eat in this were caramel.
‘Oh, but he ate a real potato bug, which is terrifying to me. And so I ate cockroaches. I’ll never do that again. I’m sorry I did it at all,’ he said, laughing.
Hoult added that the crickets he ate for the film ‘were actually quite yummy’ due to various flavors added to help them go down easier.
‘The potato bug didn’t dry out so good and that tasted every bit of bug,’ he concluded.
