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Throughout his decades-long career, Nicolas Cage has become one of the best actors in Hollywood. The actor has done some extreme things in his career, one of them being eating live cockroaches for his 1988 black horror comedyVampire’s Kiss. The movie follows him as Peter Loew, a publishing executive who thinks he’s turning into a vampire.
As he returned to the big screen in the 2023 movieRenfieldas Dracula, his experience in the film prompted him to address the global crisis of starvation, as he claimed that eating insects can help resolve the issue.
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Nicolas Cage Suggests Insect Consumption Could Solve World Starvation
During an interview withEntertainment Weekly,the cast ofRenfielddiscussed eating real insects while filming the movie.Nicholas Hoult, who played the titular character in the movie, shared that the best thing he ate was crickets, saying that they were“like smoky bacon flavor and salt and vinegar.”
The conversation ledNicolas Cageto share the benefits of eating insects. The 59-year-old actor stated how insect consumption can help solve the major global crisis of starvation, stating that “they’re just abundant, they’re everywhere.”
Cage told the outlet,“If we could get over our phobia of eating insects, you could solve world starvation,”as he explained that they are“high protein, no fat, extreme nutrients.”While he emphasized the nutritional value of bugs and their potential to resolve world starvation, Cage refrained from personally partaking in the act, citing his experience in the 1988 film.
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Nicolas Cage Has Moved on From Eating Insects
Nicolas Cage took some extreme steps for his 1988 filmVampire’s Kiss.One of the scenes of the movie features him eating a cockroach after he starts believing that he is turning into a vampire. While the original scene of the film required him to swallow a raw egg, the actor reportedly insisted on eating a cockroach to shock the audience.
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“I saw it as a business decision because when people see the cockroach go in my mouth… [they] really react,”he shared in the film’s DVD commentary track. However, he does not seem interested in following up with the practice anymore, as he shared,“I’ve learned to move on from that.”The actor recalled the experience in anotherinterview, as he called it a traumatizing experience and said that he does not want to do anything like that ever again.
BothVampire’s KissandRenfieldare available on Prime Video.
Laxmi Rajput
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Laxmi Rajput is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, with over 3,300 articles published covering film, TV, and pop culture. With a degree in Broadcast Journalism and over three years of experience in content writing, she pivoted to entertainment journalism because let’s be honest, superheroes, sitcoms, and Netflix binges are way more fun. Laxmi frequently covers Marvel, Harry Potter, Star Wars, and popular TV shows, offering both fan-first enthusiasm and thoughtful analysis. Her work often dives into Marvel theories, revisits the genius of The Big Bang Theory, or unpacks the Netflix phenomenon of Stranger Things.
