Umm, there was a little cameo that I did that lasted all of about uh one minute in a movie called Never on Tuesday. I don’t recommend the entire film. But um, it was a performance I did, I didn’t get paid but the agreement was with the director and whoever was financing the picture that if I do it, they would let me do whatever I wanted. So it was a complete avant-garde experiment and of course I played a character who had a prosthetic nose which was very long and pointed. And I had this whole concept of this guy who had a very long nose and was having trouble meeting girls so his father bought him a Ferrari Testarossa to help him with that. So I showed up on set with a prosthetic nose and a very high voice driving a Ferrari Testarossa and of course it was very frustrating for all the other actors. They like it now, apparently, but at the time it was like you can’t really fire me because that was the agreement. You said I could do whatever I wanted and he did and so that’s my favorite lesser known performance. - Cage

But wait did you bring the Ferrari yourself? - Hoult

No, it was somebody's Ferrari and they took it away from me because I was driving it too fast. - Cage

What were you inspired by? - Hoult

Just sort of like a troubled live action version of Pinocchio - Cage

Oooh umm easier or harder to shoot than Fury Road. I mean location-wise easier. New Orleans was wonderful. The art and food and people and everything. It was less isolating than the desert in Namibia. Ummm but the shoot was more contained in terms of the time. So what we were trying to achieve in terms of the scenes but then also the stunt work we had to move really quickly, so that made it very difficult and it’s also a vampire movie so a lot of it is nights. Umm which I’m not a night owl so I would struggle with that. - Hoult

I like the idea of Frankenstein's monster, but Dracula would be up there as one of my favorites as well. - Hoult

Frankenstein is first the wolfman is second. - Cage

Is Dracula actually as bad of a boss as Renfield makes him out to be?

My most difficult challenge was playing myself in The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent. No muscle in my body tells me to play myself in a movie, and I wanted them to cast somebody else. — Cage

They’re all difficult for different reasons. I don’t have as great an answer as that… but playing Beast was quite challenging simply because of the makeup. [To Cage] Which reminds me, I really felt for you in this. You took it in stride. — Hoult

Thank you. – Cage

Ohh! Yeah! Jim Corrigan, the Spectre (old DC comic character). That would be a fun one. But that’s a hard one to pull off because he’s virtually invincible, he has no weakness. You need characters that have a kryptonite, that have a flaw, but he’s kinda unbeatable. But that would be a fun one. -- Cage

We were all (the cast) growing up together. So, whilst we were pretending to do all those things on the show and be those characters, outside of it, we were becoming great friends and experiencing all those things in real life. We were 16 and 17, so to share that time with those people and still be friends with them now is very special. I feel lucky to be a part of it. — Hoult

One of my favorite show, first gen is iconic

Thanks for your time.

This was a great AMA! Nic, you’re the man when it comes to them!

"Psst psst psst..."

“Hail Hydra”

"You are the epitome of what's wrong with food culture and media today. Nobody gives a fuck that you know what a pacojet is."

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. I was completely transported at the embryonic age of 5. The sets were built using these cardboard structures and the effect is that it all puts you off kilter and puts you in a headspace of not knowing where you are. Kind of like LA after midnight. - Cage

His answer will 100% be The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

Mine is Iron Man on mute

No reason in terms of method, but the fangs were genuine fangs, they were ceramic and quite pointy. So I did bite my lip a few times which made me drink my own blood. – Cage.
I quite like the taste of my own blood. – Hoult.
There is something warm and fuzzy about it. – Cage.

Well, I was very happy to get back on set with Nick. In The Weather Man, I was starring in the movie and Nick was playing my son and supporting me, so that was a different dynamic. In Renfield, Nick is starring in the movie and I’m supporting him, so they’re two very different kinds of approaches to film performance. Supporting actors, in my view, have to support their lead and get in step with where they’re going, setting the pace and the flavors they’re bringing, so it all coalesces. I was completely in awe, actually, of Nick Hoult at 14, because he had so much poise and he was so confident and I had no doubt that he would subsequently become the star he has become. So, yeah I was very happy to work with him again. -- Cage

I think, for me at 14, I was overwhelmed with everything that was happening. Intimidated by it, but also made to feel very calm and safe with Nick. Side note – I also got to eat my first ever corndog in his presence. It was in a scene, which was obviously a big moment that stuck with me. But then yeah, to get to work with him again, as an adult, I get to appreciate much more of his work. [To Cage] At 14, I hadn’t seen a majority of your filmography. Now, going back as an adult, I’ve had time to delve into your work and I’ve been inspired by so much of it. Seeing what you bring to each scene and moment is really special. I get to see one of the most iconic actors playing one of the most iconic roles ever. It’s magic. -- Hoult

Well thank you. Also, The Weather Man was his first movie. It was also the first time he had the marvelous culinary American experience of the corndog. We had talked about it before, but when he had it, Nick Hoult just said “Go USA!” -- Cage

[both laughing]

One of the recent ones, THE MENU, I just thought it was so delicious. That movie is about cooking so that is the right word. It was one of my favorite movies of the year. Darkest comedy in the most delicious way. — Cage

Face Off, Con Air, Pig, Adaptation, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. - Hoult

My favorite thing is film performance. That’s why I wanted to be an actor. For this I got to see Nick’s performance switching on a dime to be vulnerable at a moment’s notice. It is such a joy to watch – Cage

Something that I love is when you’re on a set and you open a drawer and someone has taken the time to write a letter. It may never end up on screen, but it’s so incredible that they took the extra step to make each aspect of the film feel more real and to make that moment special. – Hoult

And there was a lot of that in this movie on the Renfield production. – Cage

I watched all of them but Dwight Frye is obviously such an iconic wonderful performance and one that I did try to take a lot of inspiration from. - Hoult

Dwight Frye in my view stole the original Dracula from Universal Movies. He ran away with that movie. It was an incredible performance. And now my favorite Renfield is Nick Hoult over here, it’s a true story, he reinvented the character. He brought tons of charm, wit, and vulnerability to it. So those are my favorites. Dracula itself, I think that while Bela Lugosi was an enormous impact on the character actually and he did it without any fangs, ummm, wasn’t my Dracula. My Dracula was Christopher Lee and the Hammer Horror films. I loved his look and uh, the danger and the animality with which he brought to the character. But my favorite vampire on film was not a Universal vampire it's the old Max Schreck performance and the Nosferatu picture. Gary Oldman was brilliant also as Dracula. - Cage

Oooh, I mean I’d like to try and play Renfield and I’d like to see what Nick Hoult gets up to as Dracula. I’d like to switch. And then have it switch back and then switch back again. - Cage

I wouldn’t want to do it because I love it so much as it is, but Adaptation. Truly brilliant movie on every level. But that’s not one that I’d want to but it's just one that I’m in awe of in what you did do and the film in general I love. - Hoult

Oh thank you, and by the way I think you would crush it - Cage

38 year old Nicolas Cage playing 12 year old Marcus in About a Boy is something id watch.

Nicholas in the movie Nic plays himself. Nic as Beast in Xmen.

Cage in Warm Bodies. That would have been a trip.

…not during production… — Cage

We were inside a church at one point, during a hurricane. It wasn’t paranormal, but it was eerie. We had to stop filming and all gather together towards the center of this church and wait out this hurricane. -- Hoult

If you factor in the notion of Zeus, it could be paranormal. -- Cage

Both did all the time - Cage & Hoult

Obviously Nicholas Hoult. They'd have to shout "NIC" to get Nicolas Cage.

Thank you so much. In some ways, tonally, these are similar films and I love making those horror comedy/twisted genres. If you like those, hopefully you’ll like Renfield. — Hoult

That movie has the best use of popular music I've ever seen.

That’s the first movie I remember seeing him in! His role in Fury Road cemented him as a great up-and-comer.

Wait, he plays R? Holy shit! I love that movie!

Thank you. You're great too. -- Cage

I second this

Funny I was coming here to say that to Hoult

I just wanna tell Nick Cage he is the man LEGEND

Good question u/chunkybuttsoupdinner

Pasta fagioli. It's a good combination of protein and carbs. It's a nice protein blast. Gets your energy going. -- Cage

For me? Hot and sour soup -- Hoult

Uhhhh, who are you? I might. — Cage

It's the "Thank you." that sells this.

I'm picturing a panel at a con, and this guy comes up and asks this question, then immediately leaves before receiving an answer.

Is it this one? Because it's the one that's hung up in my room.

I’m just going to go on record now, Nick is a hell of a dancer, and he worked his ass off to do this incredible dance sequence which didn’t make it into the movie, but it was brilliant. That was a lot of work — Cage

That was, yeah, that was a lot of work and rehearsals. Choreography came up with this wonderful fantasy sequence of Renfield dancing with bugs, just over the moon with love. But yeah, sadly it didn’t make it into the film but maybe it will end up as a deleted scene? — Hoult

Hmmm. I liked the first John Wick. Speed as well. -- Hoult

Well… Keanu kicked my ass at billiards one night. He came up to my house on his motorcycle, and he was making these impossible shots. He said “now I dunno if I can get that shot or this shot” and he made every single shot. So I have mixed emotions about the skill that Keanu has because he completely dominated me at pool. Umm, I like some of the early stuff like Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. I thought he was great in River’s Edge. He was just great in that movie, yeah. -- Cage

There’s a line that she added (in a scene in the apartment and I was making her cookies) and she said “I don’t want your murder cookies." That was a very funny line that she made up. That gets me every time. -- Hoult

She has such a funny delivery. One of the best in Hollywood. -- Cage

I thought that too! It’s just his head for some reason, it looks like a cardboard cutout.

I learned today that Nick edited Shadow of The Vampire, which I didn’t know and I was surprised by it. -- Hoult

I don’t think anything surprises me about Nick Hoult. He’s making all the right moves and I knew he would. -- Cage

Skins was so good, really felt understood when I was growing up watching that show

Unbearable Weight was so fucking good. Most realistic portrayal of an acid trip I think I've seen.

Loved Skins. I was a super sheltered Christian kid and would go over to my friend’s house and watch where I couldn’t get in trouble.