{"id":1917280,"date":"2023-04-20T17:26:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T21:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ill-never-do-that-again-nicolas-cage-admits-he-ate-a-real-cockroach-on-film\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T17:27:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T21:27:10","slug":"ill-never-do-that-again-nicolas-cage-admits-he-ate-a-real-cockroach-on-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ill-never-do-that-again-nicolas-cage-admits-he-ate-a-real-cockroach-on-film\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ll Never Do That Again\u2019: Nicolas Cage Admits He Ate A Real Cockroach On Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fill-never-do-that-again-nicolas-cage-admits-he-ate-a-real-cockroach-on-film%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1917280&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Actor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/nicolas-cage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicolas Cage<\/a> recently admitted that the cockroach he ate in 1988\u2019s \u201cVampire\u2019s Kiss\u201d was real \u2014 and that director Robert Bierman had made him do a second take, in which he had to eat a second cockroach, as a sort of prank.<\/p>\n<p>Cage, who stars as the infamous Count Dracula in the recently-released horror comedy \u201cRenfield,\u201d said in a Yahoo! News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/nicolas-cage-says-regrets-eating-135333852.html?guccounter=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> published the day the film was released in theaters that he regretted the decision to eat the cockroach. The discussion also featured his \u201cRenfield\u201d co-star Nicholas Hoult \u2014 who takes on the titular role.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll never do that again,\u201d Cage said of his roach-eating days on the set of \u201cVampire\u2019s Kiss.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m sorry I did it at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cLeaving Las Vegas\u201d actor has discussed the moment before, noting that the original script had called for him to eat a raw egg and explaining that he didn\u2019t believe that went far enough. \u201cI saw it as a business decision because when people see the cockroach go in my mouth \u2026 [they] really react,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>After the first take, Cage said that Bierman asked him to do it again \u2014 but maintains that he always intended to use the first take and only demanded a second in order to make his star eat another insect. \u201cI ate [roaches] twice because the director did it as a prank,\u201d Cage said.<\/p>\n<p>Hoult got a reprieve, however, and when the script called for Renfield \u2014 Dracula\u2019s long-suffering assistant \u2014 to chomp on an insect, he got a sweet treat instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cockroaches I got to eat in this were caramel,\u201d Hoult said \u2014 but he added that he did eat some dried crickets, which he said were fine because they had been seasoned. \u201cI also had crickets that were actually quite yummy; they were salt and vinegar flavored or barbecue smoky flavored.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cage was quick to point out that Hoult had also eaten a real potato bug \u2014 something that he said was terrifying to him personally \u2014 but Hoult was much less thrilled with the taste of that one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t good. It didn\u2019t dry out so good, and tasted every bit of bug,\u201d Hoult said.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link c-link--focus-visible\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Cage concluded with his thoughts on whether humans could ever sustain themselves by eating insects \u2014 and he said that while it would certainly be healthy, he did not see it taking hold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you could get rid of your fear, your phobia of eating insects, you could solve world starvation. High protein, no fat, excellent nutrients, abundance. They\u2019re everywhere! But nope \u2014 not gonna happen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Nicolas Cage recently admitted that the cockroach he ate in 1988\u2019s \u201cVampire\u2019s Kiss\u201d was real \u2014 and that director Robert Bierman had made him do a second take, in which he had to eat a second cockroach, as a sort of prank. 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