Nicolas Cage: this film has probably escaped you, but he has already played a very amazing vampire before Dracula #mediago #mediago24 #movielovers #moviegoers #movieworld #moviecomers

Passed by the Cannes Film Festival in 1988, a little less than two years before its release in French cinemas, Embrasse-moi vampire makes Nicolas Cage a literary agent who, after being bitten by a young woman with long teeth, believed he could turn himself into a vampire. Not really the most striking title in the career of the actor, who nevertheless keeps a very special memory of it.

And for good reason: in one scene, his character grabs a live cockroach and eats it - what the main character actually did twice, as he recently confessed in an interview , explaining that director Robert Bierman played a joke on him and he'll never do that again.

It will then have been necessary to wait nearly thirty-five years for Nicolas Cage to play the vampires again, even if the role of Dracula could have returned to him much earlier. In the early 90s, when his uncle Francis Ford Coppola was preparing his memorable adaptation of Bram Stoker 's novel .

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

So many actors who, in the end, will see Gary Oldman seize the character to deliver a memorable interpretation. For Nicolas Cage, it was only a postponement with a detour, as a producer, by the filming of Nosferatu , told in the film The Shadow of the Vampire .

And, because chance does things well, the aura of Nosferatu also hung over Renfield, as Nicholas Hoult , partner of Nicolas Cage in the Chris McKay film , starred in the remake by Robert Eggers ( The Northman ), whose shooting has just been completed. He will play Thomas Hutter in this feature film expected in 2024, while the vampire will be played by Bill Skarsgard .

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