<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&#8217;s &#8220;Vampire&#8217;s Kiss&#8221; was real — 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>
<p>Cage, who stars as the infamous Count Dracula in the recently-released horror comedy &#8220;Renfield,&#8221; 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 &#8220;Renfield&#8221; co-star Nicholas Hoult — who takes on the titular role.</p>
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<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll never do that again,&#8221; Cage said of his roach-eating days on the set of &#8220;Vampire&#8217;s Kiss.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry I did it at all.&#8221;</p>
<p>The &#8220;Leaving Las Vegas&#8221; 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&#8217;t believe that went far enough. &#8220;I saw it as a business decision because when people see the cockroach go in my mouth &#8230; [they] really react,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>After the first take, Cage said that Bierman asked him to do it again — 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. &#8220;I ate [roaches] twice because the director did it as a prank,&#8221; Cage said.</p>
<p>Hoult got a reprieve, however, and when the script called for Renfield — Dracula&#8217;s long-suffering assistant — to chomp on an insect, he got a sweet treat instead.</p>
<p>&#8220;The cockroaches I got to eat in this were caramel,&#8221; Hoult said — but he added that he did eat some dried crickets, which he said were fine because they had been seasoned. &#8220;I also had crickets that were actually quite yummy; they were salt and vinegar flavored or barbecue smoky flavored.&#8221;</p>
<p>Cage was quick to point out that Hoult had also eaten a real potato bug — something that he said was terrifying to him personally — but Hoult was much less thrilled with the taste of that one.</p>
<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t good. It didn&#8217;t dry out so good, and tasted every bit of bug,&#8221; Hoult said.</p>
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<p>Cage concluded with his thoughts on whether humans could ever sustain themselves by eating insects — and he said that while it would certainly be healthy, he did not see it taking hold.</p>
<p>&#8220;If 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&#8217;re everywhere! But nope — not gonna happen,&#8221; he said.</p>

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